Re-visioning Justice
For some months I have been helping to prepare for a conference on restorative justice that will take place this weekend, September 30 and October 1. Entitled “Re-visioning Justice,” it will be held at Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center here in western North Carolina. Professor Howard Zehr, of Eastern Mennonite University, will be speaking [...]
A New Table
This table was commissioned by the District Superintendents of the Baltimore-Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church to honor their Bishop, John Schol. The pedestal of walnut and cherry creates a well from which waters appear in the mosaic on the top. These waters of creation and baptismal renewal contain a spiral motif symbolic of [...]
Kin(g)
I’m afraid this poem needs some explanation. In the inspiring uprisings against autocrats, kings, and despots in the Arab world we have seen the renewal of the modern revolutionary effort to replace monarchical rule with popular constitutional government. (See my earlier ethics blog “The Father and the People” of February 7.) Traditional kingship, we often [...]
Stepping
Taking on the role of being a stepparent, as we have, or all the other step-relations that happen to us, is a long, slow journey, each one different, each one filled with its own unique challenges and surprises. After thirty years, we see both, along with unexpected joys. So this poem emerges in retrospection and [...]
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.