Hospitality, Vol. 27, No. 3 Editor’s note: Angola Bound II was first published in Journal for Preachers, Volume XXXI, Number 1, Advent, 2007. St. Francisville, Louisiana 8:30 AM Central Time Birdman Books and Coffee Yesterday Murphy and I departed the Three V Motor Court (the oldest motor lodge in America) for the [...]
Hospitality vol. 23, no.7 Prisoner Thony Lee Green, 102340, is a partner at the Open Door Community. For more than 20 years Murphy and I have traveled to Angola, Louisiana, to visit him for a few hours of loving tender time. Others from our little circle of love and dance have reached and [...]
Hospitality, vol. 23, no. 4 Our train stopped with a jolt on a side track. We waited without a word. We were afraid to ask, for the answer might shift the world in which we seek to have our say before the long and final silence which keeps tapping on our shoulders. Finally [...]
Hospitality vol. 16, no. 6 A good Friday it was when Gladys fell in the Conasauga River. She was crossing at a point where the cold water rushes and sings among the boulders, and it is deep. I had gone before her and the rhododendron limb held me fine. Was it because she [...]
January 1, 1993 – 8:33 pm
Too many mornings gonna wake up soon Oh, Lordy eat my breakfast by the light of the moon Oh Lord by the light of the moon If you see my momma Tell her this for me Oh, I got a mighty long time Lord knows I’ll never go free Oh Lord I’ll never be [...]
February 1, 1989 – 7:22 pm
Thony Green is a beautiful Black man. He is big and strong. Thony’s human frame is full of African features: meaty lips, a flattened nose, coal black eyes that twinkle with mystery and love. He is dirt poor–Mississippi river-(south Louisiana side)-style poor: where the dirt is rich but the poor people are depleted. Thony [...]
