![]() Following Baldwin as a spiritual guide offers us the chance to live into the things to which we're called-to become genuinely human.ĭuring the reading for and writing of this book, Garrett followed in Baldwin's physical footsteps-walking with him from his early years in Harlem to his painful journeys to the American South, from the cafes of St.-Germain in Paris to the mountains of Switzerland, where he did some of his most important thinking and writing. Irenaeus ( Against Heresies 4.20.7) of old, Baldwin argues that the glory of God is the human being fully alive. ![]() In Baldwin's call to look at our lives and bear witness to the truth, we encounter our own calls to live more fully, love more honestly, have faith in things truly worth pursuing. This requires us to face our past, he reminds us, our actual history, so that we can move forward together, and this is a universal call from a very particular human writer. In the life and work of Baldwin, equity, justice, and reconciliation-while difficult to attain-remain dreams worth pursuing. ![]() James Baldwin's fiction, essays, criticism, and dramatic writing offer searing critiques of religion, culture, and discrimination that are still timely, but in his writings, and in the witness of his life, Baldwin holds out the possibility of hope and espouses the primacy of love despite the difficulties of a present moment. ![]()
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