The President’s racism hits me like a body blow. Of course I know that people talk like that, and that both individual and institutional racism remain alive and well. But over the years I have harbored the hope and assumption that progress was being made. The old familiar words for racial minorities are no longer […]
One Wild and Precious Life
August 31, 2015 by 3 Comments
John Buchanan presented the following lecture at Campbell University, Buies Creek, North Carolina, in January 2015. People are curious about clergy. Even people who are not particularly church-oriented regard ministers and priests as curiosities. They think we are somehow fundamentally different from everybody else; that we are untouched by the normal matters of life that […]
Hold to the Good 