UUJECby Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, 2023 A Review The authors of this book, who are in favor of a multiracial (probably a multicultural) democracy, show us how… Continue Reading The Tyranny of the Minority
The Blessings of Congregational Turmoil On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry by Rev. Terasa Cooley, 2022 A Review: Good Advice but Misses the… Continue Reading Transforming Conflict
by Isabel Wilkerson, 2020 Caste Book Review Written as a Sermon Caste is the title of a book written by Isabel Wilkerson and published in April 2020. I… Continue Reading Caste, The Origins of Our Discontents
By Wendell Berry, 1970, 1989 “Racism versus Community” Wendell Berry hails from Kentucky farm country, so he has had to deal with the heritage of racism in the… Continue Reading The Hidden Wound
Columbus Day is a U.S. holiday that commemorates the landing of Christopher Columbus in the Americas in 1492, and Columbus Day 2020 will be tomorrow. After being unofficially… Continue Reading Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2020
A History of the United States by Jill Lepore, 2018 The “these truths” in this book’s title refer to the truths enumerated in our Declaration of Independence. Lepore… Continue Reading These Truths
How We Came Apart, How We Come Together by Van Jones, 2017 Van Jones takes both the Left and the Right to task for fomenting the cultural wars… Continue Reading Beyond the Messy Truth