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What Do You Do?

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on January 17, 2022. Posted in LOVE. 14 Comments on What Do You Do?

Searching for something else, I found this. It made me nostalgic, and I thought I’d share. What Do you Do? I’m telling an acquaintance about our get-away place in North Alabama. “It’s on the Tennessee River in the middle of nowhere. When we loan it out, we always tell people to bring food – it’s not the kind of place you can...

Reparations: Me Facts

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on January 15, 2022. Posted in Featured, General, Racism to Reconciliation. 4 Comments on Reparations: Me Facts

I’ve been writing about race for almost as long as I’ve had this blog. Even before this early post using the metaphor of building a house on a cliff. Specifically, I’ve written about reparations, such as this post on the Mississippi that could have been. My 2022 reparations undertaking is not new. It is focused. I thought some...

Another Mother Mary Publication

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on January 8, 2022. Posted in Featured, General, GOD, Writing. 2 Comments on Another Mother Mary Publication

I know, I know. I said I was starting a new blog schedule in 2022. And I am, I promise. But I want y’all to know about my latest publication: “The Three Mary’s Birth Hope…or Not” It appears in EAP the Magazine’s Winter issue. You can read it here. The story is an excerpt from my unpublished novel...

New Blog Features 2022

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on January 4, 2022. Posted in General, LAWYER, Racism to Reconciliation, Writing. 4 Comments on New Blog Features 2022

Good and happy 2022. In this new year, I’m making some blog changes. I actually intend to have regular features, which I’ve never done before (I’m an associative person; I follow ideas laterally; I’m very productive but hardly linear.) My news: I’m adding new blog features! New Blog Features The first of the three...

2022 Predictions

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on January 2, 2022. Posted in General. 2 Comments on 2022 Predictions

It’s 2022, y’all. Yesterday, it was 81 degrees. Tonight, it will be 31 degrees. If the rest of the year is like this, fasten your seatbelts. We’re in for another wild ride. A statue in the Sculpture Garden at City Park in NOLA

Do You Want to be Transformed?

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on December 22, 2021. Posted in Featured, General, GOD, Racism to Reconciliation. 6 Comments on Do You Want to be Transformed?

Don’t answer too quickly. Think about it. It’s a big question. Most Christians traditions value transformation, though different churches use different words. Born-again. Repentance. Metanoya. In this Advent season, rebirth is a big one. Most label transformation a goal, if not a promise. Transformed, you won’t see the world...

Christmas is a Mess

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on December 18, 2021. Posted in General, LOVE. 14 Comments on Christmas is a Mess

Christmas is a mess. Rolls of wrapping paper cluttering the table. Gifts stacked haphazardly in family groupings. Or wrapped but not yet mailed. Gold and green ribbon curls into a knotted tangle, too much of a metaphor for my emotions. What should be done hasn’t. Everyday life doesn’t stop just because Christmas is coming. There’s...

When Her Face Changed

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on December 16, 2021. Posted in Featured, Racism to Reconciliation. 4 Comments on When Her Face Changed

The video updated the famous Kenneth and Mamie Clark doll experiment. The videographer gave African American children a white doll and a Black doll. She asked each child, which doll is good? Which doll is bad? You may recall that back in the 1950s the US Supreme Court cited the results of the original doll experiment in ordering the integration...

Are You a Scapegoater?

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on December 9, 2021. Posted in Featured, GOD, Racism to Reconciliation. 4 Comments on Are You a Scapegoater?

Yesterday, we completed Week 2 of the Mississippi Episcopal Church’s Anti-Racism and Racial Reconciliation training. Click here to read about Week 1 of this 4 week training. What did I learn this week (other than, apparently, my voice doesn’t stand out in a large Zoom group, and I have a short temper about that?) Words Matter When...

Anti-Racism for Advent

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on December 2, 2021. Posted in Featured, General, GOD, Racism to Reconciliation. 4 Comments on Anti-Racism for Advent

This Advent, my husband and I are participating in Anti-Racism and Racial Reconciliation training. If this seems an odd choice, remember that my turn towards anti-racism began with the Memphis School of Servant Leadership, a religious organization. This training is offered by the Episcopal Church in Mississippi. We meet once a week for four weeks....