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Way opens, an old Quaker expression, describes the serendipitous unfolding of God's will for a person or community. For accomplished Quaker writer Patricia Wild and for us, her readers, way opens unexpectedly, sometimes painfully, and at last redemptively in this powerful, beautifully crafted spiritual memoir. From the very first page, we are drawn into a twisting odyssey of faith confronting the complexities of White privilege and American racism. Patricia Wild writes prose like a poet and tells stories like a trusted friend or favorite neighbor. Her gift is humility, tenderness, humor, humanity, and a wisdom born of experience and struggle. Profoundly moving, healing, and inspiring, this book bears eloquent witness to the past and present, and the promise of our future. --Alex Kern, Quaker activist and poet, editor of Becoming Fire: Spiritual Writing from Rising Generations, chaplain, Brandeis University
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Eight years ago, Patricia Wild began to wonder: whatever happened to the two African Americans who desegregated her high school in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1962? That question became a quest; Way Opens tracks her journey. She finds Dr. Lynda Woodruff, now a college professor, and Reverend Owen Cardwell, a Baptist preacher, she finally learns the history lessons never taught in her segregated high school, and gently guided by Lynda and Owen, her Quaker meeting, and the people she meets along the way, examines her White privilege and the spiritual underpinnings of social justice.
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Way opens, an old Quaker expression, describes the serendipitous unfolding of God's will for a person or community. For accomplished Quaker writer Patricia Wild and for us, her readers, way opens unexpectedly, sometimes painfully, and at last redemptively in this powerful, beautifully crafted spiritual memoir. From the very first page, we are drawn into a twisting odyssey of faith confronting the complexities of White privilege and American racism. Patricia Wild writes prose like a poet and tells stories like a trusted friend or favorite neighbor. Her gift is humility, tenderness, humor, humanity, and a wisdom born of experience and struggle. Profoundly moving, healing, and inspiring, this book bears eloquent witness to the past and present, and the promise of our future. --Alex Kern, Quaker activist and poet, editor of Becoming Fire: Spiritual Writing from Rising Generations, chaplain, Brandeis University
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Eight years ago, Patricia Wild began to wonder: whatever happened to the two African Americans who desegregated her high school in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1962? That question became a quest; Way Opens tracks her journey. She finds Dr. Lynda Woodruff, now a college professor, and Reverend Owen Cardwell, a Baptist preacher, she finally learns the history lessons never taught in her segregated high school, and gently guided by Lynda and Owen, her Quaker meeting, and the people she meets along the way, examines her White privilege and the spiritual underpinnings of social justice.
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