My Father Said Yes: A White Pastor in Little Rock School Integration
On September 4, 1957, nine African-American students walked through a seething mob to the front of Central Hi...
Preachers and Misfits, Prophets and Thieves: The Minister in Southern Fiction
In Martin Clark’s novel Plain Heathen Mischief, the Reverend Joel King has a problem that is ...
The Politics of Jesus
Like many of us, Obery Hendricks Jr....
Freedom Riders
The freedom riders have suffered from many misconceptions and distortions about their role in the civil rights struggle....
The Age of Anxiety
On June 1, 1950, when the United States was gripped by fears of nuclear war and treason, when demagoguery was being practiced on a sc...
Spirit and Flesh
If you want to understand how Christian conservatives think, act and interact, here is a balanced narrative combined wit...
A few good preachers
It has always been easy to romanticize a “golden age” of preaching. Clyde Fant contends that it’s always three generations ago....
Blood Done Sign My Name
On a summer day in 1970, ten-year-old Tim Tyson was playing with his neighborhood friend, Gerald Teel, when Gerald whispered to him, “Daddy and Roger and ...
Inscribing the Text: Sermons and Prayers of Walter Brueggemann
A good preacher should be able to teach in a right and orderly way . . . be able to speak well . . ....
In the thick of it
Many seminaries and pulpits are filled these days with “second-career” clergy....