On the first of many of summer’s scorching hot Sunday Birmingham afternoons I stood in one of the multitude of worldwide protests in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Along with the crowd I chanted demands such as “Hey Netanyahu, you can’t hide. We charge you with genocide” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine…
Just a quick note to let you know that my good friend Jerran Hill and I have been working on a new podcast that I’d like to share with you! The focus of the podcast is pretty much what the focus of this blog has been through the years. Each week will examine a cultural…
I was driving through a small town in Alabama yesterday and couldn’t help but notice the truck in front of me proudly exhibiting a Confederate flag. It had to be over twenty feet wide. For a split-second I wanted to confront the driver, calling out his egregious cloth monument. But, being at least slightly a…
The time has come to have a talk about the state of our world. President Donald Trump was overwhelmingly carried into office by people who fit my profile. White. Evangelical. Rural. In doing so, we’ve made an incredible mistake. Our children will never understand our silence in the face of such events. There is currently,…
This past weekend, Neo-Nazi demonstrators- including a number of terrorists armed militia-style gathered under 150 miles from the nation’s capital. They assembled to protest the city of Charlottesville’s decision to cease the practice of venerating a well-known leader of a violent contingent that once attempted to destroy the United States of America. Only after 1.2…
Am I my brother’s keeper? Nothing surpasses the joy and wonder of a child. The possibilities, the potentialities, the first steps, the crazed screams of jubilation arising over the sighting of a dog call each mother and father, each aunt and uncle and plenty of unsuspecting strangers to attention. This is inherent in what it…
Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the Lord? Is this not the fast that I choose: to…
This is the first in an installment of daily office lectionary readings from the Book of Common Prayer and their convergence with the news of the day. Ahab, the king of Israel, is an historical footnote in the long line of near eastern monarchs. He won some battles and he died in one after fighting…
