We must face our losses. Courage does not spare us from them. Courage’s work begins at the other end of honest acknowledgement. Grief
Tag: blues
Everything’s Bigger in Texas: the Oxford American 2014 Music Issue
For many years, a member of my church who knows my weird tastes in music (if most people have never heard about it, I might
Widow of Zarephath Blues
A few years ago, I wrote a song as part of a sermon series on the Blues. I was inspired by a book by Stephen
“Precious Lord,” Georgia Tom and the War with the Blues
Tonight our band is going to perform in one of the most prestigious gospel venues around our region—the American Gospel Quartet Convention, here in Birmingham.
Mary, Springsteen and Nietsche
NRSV Luke 1:46 And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord, 47 and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, 48 for he has looked
Irene, Goodnight…
For a change, Alabamians were watching anxiously for everyone else’s safety as Irene ripped up the Eastern seaboard. Alabamians are used to hunkering down in
