Live Oak
At a certain age numberless Americans and Canadians turn into snowbirds as the icy winds pour down from arctic climes, bringing with them snow. The snowbirds come to Florida and walk the beach, putter in the shops, and eat too much. This January we joined the flock to go to Melbourne, forty miles south of [...]
Racial Reconciliation in Mississippi
This May is the 50th anniversary of the “Freedom Rides” that broke down the segregation of transportation in the Southern states. The burning of one of the buses in Anniston, Alabama, the brutal beatings of riders in Montgomery, Jackson and elsewhere, and the imprisonment of hundreds in Mississippi riveted the attention of the nation and [...]
Gulfside: The Journey Continues
Gulfside Conference Center has been a place of retreat and education for Black United Methodists for almost a century. Situated right on the shore, it had suffered considerable damage from hurricane Camille in 1968, but had been repaired and a new building dedicated shortly before Katrina hit. The destruction was total. All that was left [...]
The Gulf Coast Five Years Later
Seventy-five miles west of Fairhope, Alabama, we resumed our shoreline travel in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Here you begin to see the devastation from Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005. Shearwater Pottery, home of a well-known family of ceramic artists, was simply destroyed, its houses and pottery washed away by the 20-foot storm surge. They have [...]
keep looking »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.