I’ve loved Anansi stories since I first heard and read them. Disenfranchised, disinherited people have used these and other “trickster” fables to write themselves into a world where they aren’t the pawns of the powerful, where Tiger isn’t the only power in the animal kingdom, and where wit and vision make them a way of escape. So much of the story of Black […]
We’re not all alike, and that’s not a problem
We’re in this life together and substantive solidarity is important. We share one planet, and if we kick one another off the rock, there is nowhere else for us to go. But we’re not all alike. There are differences between social groups that can make social solidarity challenging, and there are also differences within social groups that […]
When Popular Analogies Steer Us Off-course
On Friday morning I eavesdropped on the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s Annual Council meeting at the denomination’s headquarters in central Maryland. Several voices will live-report on the 8-day meetings via the Twitter hashtag #GCAC14: follow along over the next week. Mark Finley is an Adventist statesman, an internationally known Adventist speaker and elder. For most of the 1990s […]