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Imagining Our Ancestral Amends

Acts of injustice done
Between the setting and the rising sun
In history lie like bones,
each one.

—W.H. Auden, “The Ascent of F6,” written with Christopher Isherwood in 1936. Act II, Scene V; quoted by Richard Adams in his novel Watership Down. (1936)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/W._H._Auden#Quotations

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IMAGE acknowledgement: ‘Valley of Dry Bones: Can they live again?’ by Lashawnda Jones. https://spirit-harvest.com/2012/01/17/valley-of-dry-bones/ Cf. ‘Prophesy Life to Dry Bones’ by Elaine Tavolacci. http://1soul1nation.blogspot.com/2015/07/prophesy-life-to-dry-bones-by-elaine.html

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Theophus 'Thee' Smith is an emeritus interfaith scholar at Emory University, Episcopal clergy at St. Philip’s Cathedral in Atlanta, Georgia (GA) USA, and board chair at SouthernTruth.net