Books and Articles – FREE
Here are some of my books and articles that people have found helpful over the years. In most cases I have made some revisions from their original publication. These are copyrighted books and articles for your own personal use. They are not to be altered or reproduced in any form or sold to other parties.
These downloads are in .pdf format. Simply click on the title and it will appear in your Adobe Acrobat Reader. (If you don’t have the Reader it is available free at Adobe Reader.) Then save it to your computer.
Books:
BLESSED BE THE BOND: Christian Perspectives on Marriage and Family.
Presentation of a framework for understanding the relationship between Christian symbols (covenant, sacrament, vocation, and communion) to the “subjects” of marriage and family (self, couple, family, and household), and the forms of social relationships (hierarchical, egalitarian, and organic). Concludes with a proposal for a contemporary theology of marriage and family.
PRAYING FOR GOD’S REPUBLIC: A Proposal for Transforming Our Worship.
Proposes ways we might transform our worship to one based on the symbols and paradigms of patriarchy and monarchy to those of democratic, constitutional republics.
ROUNDTABLE WORSHIP: A Reflective Guide
Presents practices of worshipping at a round table based on the circle practices of restorative justice. This work can be found with related resources at JustPeace: The United Methodist Center for Mediation and Conflict Transformation.
Articles:
“With the Grain: Woodworking, Spirituality and the Struggle for Justice,” Journal of Theology for Southern Africa, No. 123 (November, 2005) 6-15. Presented at a symposium in honor of John DeGruchy upon his retirement at the University of Cape Town.
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...
TURNINGS: Poems of Transformation
Like works in
wood upon a lathe, these poems are word-turnings that reveal the inner grain of our human experience. They are bowls to catch our turnings of memory, conversion, falling in love, and passing through our seasons and the wrenching turns that mark our lives. Above all these turnings are a shout of praise, a murmur of wonder, a turning away from life as usual, a merciful re-turning to the songs, images and stories that move our lives.
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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. You can get Red Clay, Blood River at:
Booklocker--also in ebook version (PDF)In South Africa at: www.Loot.co.za and www.Kalahari.net