Sublime

It is called darkhei shalom, ‘the ways of peace’. That is the idea I explore in this chapter.

birth and training; but it is an observation not…

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We are all responsible for each other. We may not have mocked or slandered anyone, or committed sexual impropriety, but did we fail to confront others who did?

The attack was intended to provoke a race war in the heart of the old Confederacy. But instead of war, Charleston erupted in grace following the examples of these people of faith. “Blacks and whites filled the miles-long Ravenel Bridge in a show of unity,

Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth

challenge, isn’t it, to keep our hearts open and receptive while wrestling with the threat of terrorism, the practice of capital punishment, the genocide of Native people, the social death under slavery?

Had Anthony seriously reflected on the findings of her friend Ida B. Wells, she might have realized that a noncommittal stand on racism implied that lynchings and mass murders by the thousands could be considered a neutral issue.