Showing posts with label Alice Walker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alice Walker. Show all posts
Sunday, February 24, 2013

Alice Walker Feature Documentary "Beauty in Truth" Premieres

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Back in October 2011 , I told readers of Bilgrimage about a film being made to celebrate the life and work of Alice Walker--"Alice...
Monday, October 31, 2011

Another Reader-Requested Piece: Reflections on Alice Walker's Significance for Me

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I blogged recently about my response to Rembert Weakland's book A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church , noting that I was doing so because...
Monday, July 4, 2011

Alice Tells Her Chickens about Dharamsala: The Song on Which Everything Depends

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Alice Walker, writing (to her chickens) about what she encountered when she went to the monastery of Dharamsala, in The Chicken Chronicles...
Saturday, July 2, 2011

Alice Walker on Chickens, Spiders, and the Human Species as a Test

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From Alice Walker, The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, ...

We Have a Multicultural Meal, and Think of Alice and Her Chicken Angels

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So Steve and I go a Vietnamese restaurant in Houston, and as we're happily slurping our bowls of pho, the two attractive young Mexican...
Friday, July 1, 2011

Alice and Her Chicken Angels: Still Learning, After All These Years

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From Alice Walker, The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Sp...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Of Men, Women, and Capital Cities: Listening to Women's Word and Witness

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I’ve been thinking about gender lately. And cities. Capital cities are, of course, overweeningly masculine for the most part. Anywhere i...
Thursday, June 18, 2009

Three-Fifths of All Persons: An Examination of the Effects of Dehumanization

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In the wake of the ruling by the California Supreme Court upholding the choice of voters in proposition 8 to amend the state constitution b...
Thursday, June 26, 2008

Barack Obama and Post-Homophobic Models of Black Leadership

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Unlike many other African-American leaders, Mr. Obama has been willing to confront the ugly homophobia of many African Americans (especially...
Tuesday, June 3, 2008

And the Pilgrimage Continues

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Readers, brothers and sisters on the journey with me, thank you for your patience during the few days I have been silent. I appreciate the ...