The blessings of grief, healing, and the orange groves

December 2019, excerpted from the book. Like anybody, I have endured periods of grief and have been affected with depression and yet informed by the bittersweet wisdom. Death is grief, divorce is grief; losing a job is lamentation; coping with disease is mortal...

We have too much embellished MLK’s short, troubled life

[responsive][/responsive] Salem, Va., 1/19/2015—Serving here at Roanoke College as visiting lecturer for the MLK Holiday, it occurs to me that there is a discomfiting gap between our impression of King and the actuality of the man. Martin Luther King Jr. would have...