Reconciliation with Earth: Some Questions and Probings
Red Clay, Blood River raises the question of what it means to find reconciliation with the Earth. Or is it “reconciliation with Earth”? Perhaps the latter, for we always want …
Review by Wisteria Leigh
The Historical Novels Review Online (a service of the Historical Novel Society) has just published a review by Wisteria Leigh. Here are a few excerpts from her review. “The theme …
The OIKOS Word on Ecology
Environmental concerns reach back to my earliest years, when I spent my summers on a family farm in northern Virginia and even formed a “Nature Club” when I was about …
Woodworking and Spirituality
While woodworking has always been part of my life, it became a central activity only ten years ago. Teaching writing, raising a family, and engaging in community activities left little …
Review by JC Walkup
In addition to her story about the novel, JC Walkup simultaneously wrote a review in The Guide, published by The Mountaineer (Waynesville, NC) on February 25, 2009, p. 5, printed …
Local Story on Red Clay, Blood River
JC Walkup, a writer and journalist in Haywood County, NC, has written a story about my novel in The Guide, published by The Mountaineer (Waynesville, NC) on February 25, 2009, …
My Approach to Restorative Justice
The concept of restorative justice has emerged strongly in the past few years to sit as an equal beside more familiar forms of retribution, distribution, and exchange. At its heart …
What Is “Roundtable Ministries”?
Roundtable Ministries seek to express God’s work of reconciliation and restoration in worship and community action. In worship we place a round table at the center of our communion and …
Dramatic Readings with Barbara Bates Smith
Over the past few months I have been developing a performance of dramatic readings based on Red Clay, Blood River with a well-known regional actress, Barbara Bates Smith. Noted for …
A People Passing Over
Having lived my entire life in the toils of our heritage of slavery and racism, I could only respond to the election of November 4, 2008, with these words: A …
Red Clay Blood River can now be viewed at Google Book Search
Google Book Search is the largest growing repository of books on the planet, and Google is making an effort to digitize and store literally every published book for viewing by …
Red Clay Blood River is now available on the Amazon Kindle!
Many of you have heard about the Amazon Kindle–the latest (and from what I hear, the best) ebook reader to hit the market. What you may not have heard is …