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China Galland's Blog
December 2, 2009
- Peter J. Gomes is the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church and and American Baptist Minister. A member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of the Harvard Divinity School, Professor Gomes is a beloved figure, revered teacher, and icon at Harvard. His books include New York Times best-sellers as well as the marked up title i turn back to, ...
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December 2, 2009
- Success! A new law establishing legal consequences and fines for locking people out of cemeteries and for obstructing access went into effect this fall in Texas. Publication of Love Cemetery set off the state-wide controversy over burial grounds that continues to grow. Despite the new law in effect, the Love Cemetery committee is still locked out after 2.5 years. Before we got involved (2003), ...
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November 27, 2009
- Success! Thanks to the controversy sparked by the story of Love Cemetery and the work of many, a new law was passed in the Texas Legislature this year creating legal consequences and establishing fines for denying people access to cemeteries. The law went into effect September 1st, 2009. Though the legislation was passed in an attempt to rectify the egregious offenses that occur and ...
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September 20, 2008
- I'll be speaking informally about how I came to write Love Cemetery, a non-fiction book, set in East Texas, on race and reconciliation. I'm known for writing about women's spirituality, pilgrimages and women activists around the world. So it's natural to be asked what race has to do with it. I'll tell how my travels took me from the American wilderness, to India, Nepal, Brazil, ...
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September 20, 2008
- I'll be speaking informally about how I came to write Love Cemetery, a non-fiction book, set in East Texas, on race and reconciliation. I'm known for writing about women's spirituality, pilgrimages and women activists around the world. So it's natural to be asked what race has to do with it. I'll tell how my travels took me from the American wilderness, to India, Nepal, Brazil, ...
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August 27, 2008
- We are working to catalyze a greatly needed national dialogue on race and reconciliation. The footage we have shows a community overcoming difference to find connection, it shows people speaking truth to power and telling the buried stories of their ancestors. Stories can change hearts. They open us up to a full-body change, embodiment, not just a changed mind.The book had sparked a public ...
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July 30, 2008
- Want to Save the World? The San Francisco Writing for Change Conference Can Help.Please join me and bestselling keynoters Lynn Andrews and Gay Hendricks at the second San Francisco Writing for Change Conference, Saturday and Sunday, August 16 and 17, at the Hotel Kabuki. <!--break-->The SFW4C is the first conference devoted to nonfiction books about any kind of change from the personal ...
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