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Evil Doers in the Family

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on August 22, 2021. Posted in General, RACISM. 6 Comments

So we prayed Psalm 34:15-22 at church this morning, the second verse of which is: “the face of the Lord is against those who do evil,*to root out the remembrance of them from the earth.”Psalm 34:16 I read that and into my brain popped the thought, That’s the statue removal. Confederate statues, my brain meant. *** As...

A Fork with its Hair on Fire

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on August 11, 2021. Posted in General. 2 Comments

The Fork with its hair on fire with faithful companion Sometimes, when I’ve been overwhelmed with COVID numbers in states where those I love live or I’ve been spending too much time researching my difficult family history, the absurd is what I need

What’s Manipulating You?

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on August 10, 2021. Posted in General. 8 Comments

Let’s break it down. I’ll go first. Here’s my list of how (un)successful I am at preventing a hate-based reaction to the unmasking/unvaccinated assisting the spread of COVID-19. I arranged it in descending order, from most successful to least: those increasing the chance a new variant will elude my vaccinethose increasing the...

What’s Your Invisible Wind?

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on August 5, 2021. Posted in General, RACISM. 6 Comments

White privilege is like riding the bike down the beach in Waveland. There’s an incline as the land rises toward Bay St. Louis, but it’s a basically easy ride. You pedal along. The Gulf is to your right, the lovely houses to your left. The temperature is okay, not beating down hot. You can feel it in your thighs, the exertion, but it’s...

Can America be the Land of the Brave?

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on July 6, 2021. Posted in General, GOD, RACISM. 8 Comments

Y’all know this story, right? About how King David of Israel saw a woman bathing and asked who she was. David’s advisors told him she was the wife of Uriah, one of David’s soldiers. David’s messengers “brought Bathsheba to him.” They had sex. David then arranged for her husband Uriah to be killed in battle...

Don’t Die Needlessly

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on July 1, 2021. Posted in GRIEF. 6 Comments

During the years I volunteered at the Door of Hope, I knew several guests who had been kicked out of the house after being diagnosed with AIDS. All too often the family members did this—kicked out their loved ones—because their pastor told them the loved one had committed a sin. They were sinful. Someone to be shamed. Disowned. Kicked out. The...

A Random Sunday

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on June 27, 2021. Posted in General, GOD. Leave a Comment

Today at the Free Church of the Annunciation, we wrapped up the month of June doing We R Righting Group where, during the hour before church, we wrote about Re-Orienting Our New Selves after the discombobulating last eighteen months. We had fun. Fun, I say, if that’s what you think of the Holy Spirit appearing while almost-strangers share...

Oh, To Be a Dermatologist

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on June 24, 2021. Posted in General. 3 Comments

So I’m sitting in the cubicle and the doctor is peering at my skin while he dictates to the nurse who’s plinking away at her laptop, saying, “That’s an AK,” and then he adds, “Put a spot on that before we lose it,” (or something like that) and then he says, “Mind if I burn that?” and I ask, ...

Get Ready: It’s WTF Time, Y’all

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on June 22, 2021. Posted in General, RACISM. 10 Comments

I want to tell you a story. The characters in this story came from many lands, but eventually their view of themselves sorted around one fact: they did not come from Africa. Or China…or anywhere “that just doesn’t look white.” I’m a character in this story, the starring role, in fact. Fair warning: I’m not the hero. The Story Once...

Nekkid People

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on June 6, 2021. Posted in General, GOD. 4 Comments

This morning in church I was a lay reader for the first time in my life. You usually have to go through training or some such before they let you stand at the head of the church at the heavily-carved lectern with a microphone in front of you and read the word of God—we say that after the reading, intone it, actually: “The Word of God.”...