Friends:

I am still drinking coffee from lunch.
I have to keep up the blog name.

Last Tuesday at this time I was in Richmond.
I had just heard a very stimulating but quite informal
presentation by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove and Ann Atward.
on "The Power of Race." Jonathan is the leader of the New Monasticism
and Ann is a seasoned civil rights leader and activist. Theirs was an
experiential talk--it was quite absorbing. One thought that sticks with me
is that the way of interpreting Scripture that justified segregation and discrimination
persists in some places--and this is one root of a continuing problem.

The talk, one of the Lawrence Hoover lectures at the Baptist Theological Seminary
in Richmond, was a concrete and practical discussion of a perduring issue in our culture.

Peace,
JOhn