Photographic Memories
My reflections on memory continue, heightened by preparations for my talks at the Collegiate Peaks Forum next month. Here’s another poem in that series. Old photographs laid out upon the table, still glossy, colors running red or yellow like receding stars shifting on the spectrum of my memory, array themselves like Hubble’s mirrors, magnifying memories [...]
Darwin and Restorative Justice
The evolutionary perspective that Charles Darwin generated over a century ago continues to refocus, reframe, and reconstruct our views of everything from God to humanity, history to biology. Perusing the latest controversies, I began to think about the impact of evolutionary thought on restorative justice. From an evolutionary perspective theologians can no longer easily speak [...]
Easter Morning
On Easter morning we gathered with some friends in a nearby wildflower garden founded by the mother of one of our group. We read poems, shared our reflections, and munched on breakfast goodies. Then we took a vial of spikenard, which we had purchased two years ago in Bethlehem, and sprayed some drops on an [...]
Elephants
Red Clay, Blood River is a story about memory — how we remember, what our memories do to us, and how we share our memory with the memory of earth. As I have been working on these questions lately I am reminded of the memory of elephants, thoughts which issued in this poem. Elephants return [...]
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. READ MORE...
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.