In the Presence of My Enemies

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Interpretive tapestry by Lee Porter — Hospitality, Thou Preparest a Table III

This memory still makes me smile. It also challenges me to think about my voice and how I use it now.

It was fall 1993. I’d just been promoted to full professor, and was the designated speaker for the seminary’s fall academic convocation. I worked on my address that summer in the context of angry national and local rhetoric about racial diversity. Read the rest of this entry »