Blog archive /March 2011

March 2011

Combatting my ignorance, opening my imagination

Submitted by Andrew on Thu, 2011-03-24 09:33
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Interviews

Amy Riley posted this interview on March 24, on her blog My Friend Amy. The interview was conducted as an email exchange, and was posted on the same day Amy posted her review of The Sword of the Lord: The Roots of Fundamentalism in an American Family.

A Biafran Soldier’s Survival from the Jaws of Death

Submitted by Andrew on Wed, 2011-03-23 11:30
Category: 
veteran
War
Peace
trauma
Africa
Book Reviews

Biafran Soldier's Survival

Worshipping the myths of World War II

Submitted by Andrew on Wed, 2011-03-16 17:19
Category: 
trauma
World War 2
Book Reviews
combat

Myths of WW2An amazing book I read recently was Worshipping the Myths of World War II, written by Edward Wood, a combat veteran of World War II. Wood was an 18-year-old thrown into battle in France after D-Day in June of 1944 with virtually no military training.

Playing tuba

Submitted by Andrew on Sun, 2011-03-13 20:30
Category: 
Peace
tuba
Kindom of Heaven
drum major

A poem written today at the Valley and Mountain Fellowship, Rainier Valley in Seattle. 

preaching consolation
I walk in beauty
my ears sharp to your voice
my eyes peeled for
any stray ray of light

when I visit the time and place
of my own death
I remember the future

when I feed the hungry
I feed my own soul
when I seek peace
I am delivered unto peace
when I listen to you
my voice is magnified

The Funeral of John R. Rice (and My Dinner with Jerry Falwell)

Submitted by Andrew on Wed, 2011-03-09 20:23
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John R. Rice
Jerry Falwell
revolution
The Sword of the Lord
Excerpts from The Sword of the Lord
Video
Moral Majority
Jack Hyles
Ronald Reagan
Bob Jones University

“THE SWORD OF THE LORD…and of John R. Rice.”—from the masthead of John R. Rice’s newspaper, which began publication in 1935. The following is an excerpt from Andrew Himes' book, The Sword of the Lord: The Roots of Fundamentalism in an American Family.

This I believe

Submitted by Andrew on Fri, 2011-03-04 08:51
Category: 
Vietnam
War
Peace
trauma
faith
violence
Compassion
Voices in Wartime
Memoir Excerpts
belief

soldiers huggingIn 2005 I produced a documentary film, Voices in Wartime, that uses poetry to explore the trauma of war, and over the past few years I have spent many hours talking to people about their experience of war. I’ve talked to classrooms full of students, and I’ve hosted community dialogues on war and trauma, and I’ve facilitated audience discussions after screenings of films about war.

Down in Joe Brown's coal mine

Submitted by Andrew on Fri, 2011-03-04 09:08
Category: 
slavery
Memoir Excerpts
Grateful Dead
Georgia
convict labor
cola mine

joe brown sr.In researching my book The Sword of the Lord, I learned that my great-great-great grandfather was a man named Dangerfield Rice, a poor Tennessee farmer who moved to Missouri in 1820 and to become a wealthy owner of a hemp plantation and the many slaves who worked the land. 

The Giant Iguana of Patrick Kervran

Submitted by Andrew on Wed, 2011-03-02 08:53
Category: 
love
death
Silent Night
funeral
grace
iguana
Pat Kervran
Amazing Grace
story
Memoir Excerpts

IgweenaPat Kervran had a secret life that manifested itself at an inconvenient time in the shape of an infant iguana. I had never before met an iguana. I knew nothing about iguanas other than that they were lizards and they were green.

James Corder on the Subway in NYC

Submitted by Andrew on Wed, 2011-03-02 09:48
Category: 
Memoir Excerpts
civil rights
Selma Project

James CorderIn the summer of 1973, I was the director of the Selma Inter-religious Project in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The Selma Project was a support organization for civil rights activists working in small towns located in the rural Black Belt across central and southern Alabama, southern Mississippi, and the Florida panhandle.

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