Joy Jordan-Lake examines the ways in which antebellum women novelists tried to counter Harriet Beecher Stoweis enormously popular Uncle Tom's Cabin by preaching a itheology of whitenessi from within the pages of the books - but were ultimately undermined by their own proslavery agendas. Including a discussion of twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels that revisit plantation mythology, Whitewashing Uncle Tom's Cabin casts new light on the ethical and moral disaster of securing one groupis economic strength at the expense of other groupsi access to dignity, compassion, and...

Joy Jordan-Lake examines the ways in which antebellum women novelists tried to counter Harriet Beecher Stoweis enormously popular Uncle Tom's Cabin by preaching a itheology of whitenessi from within the pages of the books - but were ultimately undermined by their own proslavery agendas. Including a discussion of twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels that revisit plantation mythology, Whitewashing Uncle Tom's Cabin casts new light on the ethical and moral disaster of securing one groupis economic strength at the expense of other groupsi access to dignity, compassion, and...

Jesus offers grace and mercy but he's also ratcheted up all the rules
Nice as it would be to frame Jesus as fun-loving, or a mercy-dispensing friend, the stories we have about him are a lot more disturbing than that.
We hear about celebrations that began as a wake, and about people who didn t use their talents well being bounced clear out of the club. Jesus clearly thought that following the way of truth involved a lot more than simply avoiding things like murder, stealing, committing adultery or telling lies.
When Jesus truly makes you nervous, he is worth living and dying for, and...