Note: I started writing this post about 4 years ago when I first read Vance’s memoir. Since then I’ve listened to the author read the book on tape, and I’ve seen Ron Howard’s revisioning of the narrative on Netflix. Below are 2 photographs of the same woman. She took them both of herself, but hundreds of […]

Polish Resistance, Regardless

Like so many people with long roots in West Virginia, I have the lovemaking, hard stepping, fight starting, large drinking, genetic and cultural legacy of Ireland and Scotland in me. It doesn’t matter much that we never owned that or planned events around it when I was young; I know now that ignoring the woven […]

Remembering the words of James Cone this week

Originally posted on James Calvin Davis:
“In a revolutionary situation there can never be nonpartisan theology. Theology is always identified with a particular community. It is either identified with those who inflict oppression or with those who are its victims. A theology of the latter is authentic Christian theology, and a theology of the former…

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Brevity's Nonfiction Blog
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Longridge Review
River Teeth: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction
Still: The Journal

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