The OIKOS Word on Ecology
Environmental concerns reach back to my earliest years, when I spent my summers on a family farm in northern Virginia and even formed a “Nature Club” when I was about ten years old. Twenty-five years ago, my wife Sylvia and I launched “The OIKOS Project on Work, Family and Faith” to provide a lens for [...]
Woodworking and Spirituality
While woodworking has always been part of my life, it became a central activity only ten years ago. Teaching writing, raising a family, and engaging in community activities left little time or money for this passion. As the children left college I was able to start buying tools and machinery so that by 2000 I [...]
Review by JC Walkup
In addition to her story about the novel, JC Walkup simultaneously wrote a review in The Guide, published by The Mountaineer (Waynesville, NC) on February 25, 2009, p. 5, printed here in its entirety by permission.
Red Clay, Blood River
Review by JC Walkup
Parallel movements of humankind in South Africa and the mountains of North Carolina [...]
Local Story on Red Clay, Blood River
JC Walkup, a writer and journalist in Haywood County, NC, has written a story about my novel in The Guide, published by The Mountaineer (Waynesville, NC) on February 25, 2009, p. 4. Here is an extensive excerpt from her piece, with permission of The Mountaineer.
“’What if’ Question Spurred Local Author’s Book Project”
by JC Walkup
Bill [...]
About William J. Everett
In my teaching career I authored eight books and numerous articles in social ethics and religion. After over thirty years of academic work — in Germany, India, and South Africa as well as in the United States — I wanted to turn my hand to a poetically written novel to probe the issues of ecological and human reconciliation.
When I am not writing, I create furniture for worship settings. For more about my work, go to www.WisdomsTable.net, where you will also find galleries of artwork by my wife Sylvia, whose ancestors were the original inspiration for Red Clay, Blood River. Click to read my complete bio...
About Red Clay Blood River
Red Clay, Blood River
is a story told by Earth about two brothers from Germany and an enslaved
South African woman whose lives bind together America’s “Trail of
Tears” and South Africa’s simultaneous “Great Trek” of 1838.
Memories of their journeys through oppression, estrangement and reconciliation
reverberate in the lives of three contemporary students brought together
by their interests in ecology. Through their often difficult friendship
and a surprising discovery they begin to unravel the mystery of their
estrangements, struggles, and deep connections to each other and to
the earth.
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