The Last Word
Jayne Jaudon Ferrer presented my poem “Mary’s Cry” on her poet-friendly website, Your Daily Poem, which I have listed with “Other Sites of Interest” in the middle column. Take a visit and subscribe! I wrote “Mary’s Cry” as a Christmas poem, but she saw in it an Easter poem and I agree. You can make [...]
Lines Lively
A friend once said to me “I didn’t know you wrote metaphysical poems.” Well, I do. And here is yet another one, posted on this Earth Day, where we re-connect with our love for this lively planet in the mystery of this universe — or are there more? Today also would have been my father’s [...]
Blessed Be the Bond
My earlier book on marriage and family entitled Blessed Be the Bond is now available free on this website. First published in 1985, this is its third edition, thanks to the encouragement, labor, and support of Prof. Richard Hunt, a long-time teacher and researcher in this area. This little book seeks to bring together in [...]
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.