The Context of Love is the World: Liturgies of Incarceration
http://www.daviddark.org/#!The-Context-Of-Love-Is-The-World-Liturgies-of-Incarceration/cafx2/56e70d940cf2bdd8ba4df737 A professor went to prison to teach; he had a lot to learn. Appears in Spring 2016 Issue: The Rule of Law, The Way of Love by David Dark March 3 rd , 2016 Many years before I set foot in a prison, I passed an afternoon in conversation with the writer, provocateur, and Baptist minister Will Campbell at his home in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. A friend to Martin Luther King Jr., Thomas Merton, and Kris Kristofferson, Will was that rare white Southerner whose witness throughout the civil rights era was famously—or notoriously— exemplary. At the risk of life and limb, he ushered the Little Rock Nine past an angry white mob in 1957, he counselled and supported Freedom Riders in the sixties, and he ministered to imprisoned Klansmen in the seventies. He was in his eighties when we met, and while his obituary appeared on the front page of the New York Times when ...