William J. Everett's Blog

Reflections on Writing, Woodworking, and Ethics

Rooting in the Past

In her recent column, “Rooting Around in the Past,” (Newsweek, October 28, 2009, p. 24), Raina Kelley reflects on the way media have handled news about Michelle Obama’s mixed racial ancestry. Thanks to the research of NY Times researcher Megan Smolenyak, her South Carolina slave ancestors and the white father of her great-great-grandfather now stand [...]

A Visit to Boston – Update

On November 9-11 I will be in the Boston area. On Monday I will be at Boston University School of Theology to join in leading Tom Porter’s seminar on Restorative Justice. Wednesday, I will join with Prof. Mark Burrows at Andover Newton Theological School in leading worship in their new chapel at 1 pm, where [...]

A Table for the Roundtable Gathering

The Roundtable Worship Gathering has met at First United Methodist Church in Waynesville for over six years. I finally got around to making them a table! While other communion tables have featured grapes, wheat, doves, and related symbols, I decided on a simple, abstract design that I had already developed for a smaller table used [...]

Good Stock

I recently received an inquiry from Pamela Hanson, who asked if I knew of a poem that could be read at a memorial service for her father, Roland Hanson, who was, among other things, a woodworker. Not finding one in my files I was led to give voice to these words.
Good stock
cut straight
with figure [...]

  • 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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  • Where to buy Red Clay Blood River

    Booklocker--also in ebook version (PDF)
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    In South Africa at www.Loot.co.za and www.Kalahari.net

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