Curating the View: Tourism & Exploitation in Appalachia
What happens when an economically desperate state decides to put itself on exhibit?
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There’s a Vampire in the Holler
Why do we beg death to spare us over for another year? To fill those trains once again so all we’ll hear are the whistles of them pulling out, loaded down with still more of our life’s blood and our land’s bounty?
Read moreFaith and Community: A New Appalachia
If we somehow, some way can grasp this concept that individual and communal differences are to be embraced rather than loathed, then space is created for divine diversity to take shape
Read moreReframing Thanksgiving: An Opportunity for Reconstruction
Thanksgiving provides the opportunity for all of us who follow the Galilean Healer to recognize the long road of destruction on which we’ve been traveling—constructed by the plowing down and paving over of entire civilizations—and intentionally determine to take an alternative route.
Read morePodcast season 2 Episode 2: Brad Davis on Coalfield Justice and “The Holler Gospel”
Generations of oppression and exploitation have left the coalfields of central Appalachia among the most economically & socially depressed areas of the world. In this episode, Joe talks with coalfield justice advocate Brad Davis about how systemic dehumanization has affected the region and how his vision for a contextualized “Holler Gospel” can help restore individuals, families, and communities.
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