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, …
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 …
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 …
Fairhope Community
We just spent three days in Fairhope, Alabama, a remarkable town on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay founded a little over a century ago by disciples of the “single …