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After reading today’s entry on Sherry Chandler’s blog, I am announcing my public endorsement of Hillary Clinton.
Sherry is an activist and a fine poet. Read her chapbook Worldview in the Dead Mule.
Hillary Clinton is an imperfect woman, running for an office held to date only by men. She has been a loyal wife under the most trying and embarrassing of conditions. She will work to provide health care for all Americans and to bring our soldiers home.
Please join me in supporting this fine American.
“Books aren’t written—they’re rewritten. Including your
own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially
after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it.” —Michael Crichton
Recently I refused, at least temporarily, to answer some questions on someone else’s blog. The person who asked the questions felt that I should be able to state my own position easily. I tried to explain: Knowing something and writing it as a fool-proof argument are different.
I’ve said this before. No one writes something great the first time. If a much-published author like Crichton knows this it must be true. We rewrite and rewrite and rewrite, trying to get it right. On blogs we just write. No wonder we’re so confusing in what we say. 
For I am certain of this: neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nothing already in existence and nothing still to come, nor any power, nor the heights nor the depths, nor any created thing whatever, will be able to come between us and the love of God, known to us in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8: 38-39
“The love of God has become visible in Jesus. . . . in the descending way. That is the great mystery of the Incarnation. God has descended to us human beings to become a human being with us. . . . God’s way can be grasped only in prayer. . . . The mystery of God’s presence can be touched only by a deep awareness of his absence. It is in the center of our longing for an absent God that we discover his footprints. . . .”
to read the rest of this devotional see Show Me the Way: Daily Lenten Readings by Henri Nouwen
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Works By Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Nonviolence and Racial Justice,” The Christian Century 74 (6 February 1957): 165-67.
“The South,” Time 63, no. 7 (18 February 1957): 17-20.
“The Most Durable Power,” The Christian Century 74 (5 June 1957): 708-10.
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. 1958. Reprint. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1986.
“The Church and the Race Crisis,” The Christian Century 75 (8 October 1958), 1140-41.
“Who Is Their God?” The Nation 195 (13 October 1962): 209-10.
Strength to Love. 1963. Reprint, with foreword by Coretta Scott King. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1983.
Why We Can’t Wait. New York: Mentor, 1964.
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? Boston: Beacon Press, 1967.
The Trumpet of Conscience. 1967. Reprint, with foreword by Coretta Scott King. San Francisco: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968.
“Martin Luther King Speaks.” Original recordings of King’s sermons and speeches prepared by the Southern Christian Leadership Committee for weekly radio broadcast by the National Black Network and Black Audio. 24 audiocassettes.
The Measure of a Man. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1988.
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. Edited by James Melvin Washington. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1986.
The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr. Selected by Coretta Scott King. New York: Newmarket Press, 1987.
The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Edited by Clayborne Carson et al. 4 vols. to date. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992-.
vol. 1, Called to Serve, January 1929—June 1951. 1992.
vol. 2, Rediscovering Precious Values, July 1951—November 1955. 1994.
vol. 3, Birth of a New Age, December 1955—December 1956. 1997.
vol. 4, Symbol of the Movement, January 1957—December 1958. 2000.
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Edited by Clayborne Carson. New York: Warner Books, 1998. Accompanied by original recordings. Time Warner AudioBooks. 6 audiocassettes.
A Knock At Midnight: Inspiration From the Great Sermons of Martin Luther King, Jr. Edited by Clayborne Carson and Peter Holloran. New York: Warner Books, 1998. Accompanied by original recordings. Time Warner AudioBooks. 6 audiocassettes.
[This is the first section of my thesis bibliography, completed in 2000. Since then the fifth and sixth volumes in the King Papers, Threshold of a New Decade, January 1959-December 1960, 2005, and Advocate of the Social Gospel, September 1946- March 1963, 2007, and The Martin Luther King Jr. Encyclopedia, January 2008, have been released. I don't have the encyclopedia yet, but it's on my wish list.]
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