An Analysis of the Message of the Negro Spirituals…

…Within the Context of Jürgen Moltmann’s Theology of Hope by Carolyn Matthews, Dominican University. Presented at the 2010 Graduate Liberal Studies Symposium, Reed College, Portland Oregon, 26 June Editor’s Note: this essay contains the lyrics to several spirituals, and a downloadable (.wav) recording of Ms. Matthews singing the spiritual. The music had its origin on [...]

Mockingbird and Jim Crow

By Michael Cox One of my favourite books of all time, which also happens to be one of my favourite movies of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, has been thoroughly downgraded, one might even say trashed, by an article in the New Yorker.  The novel, Malcolm Gladwell writes in the August [...]

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