This collection of essays containing my most current ideas has been published by Bookbaby.  https://store.bookbaby.com/…/human-faith-within-a…

The original was published in 1994. https://store.bookbaby.com/…/human-faith-within-a...

The second edition, or Conscious and Command, Revisited, is a work in progress that I hope to publish. It will be both a good prologue and a good epilogue to Human Faith Within a Conscious Biosphere.  It will show how my thinking has developed, and also provide an example of one of the social systems that I describe in FWCB.  It will, suggest the plateau that I had reached in 1994.

I have only begun this project.  I have tried to suggest the beginning of the story, and have outlined the narrative, but I hope to add much more. In summary, I was born in abject poverty, among impoverished people. They bore the poverty without complaint and enjoyed life  life was good.  In 1944, a school bus came to the front of our two room house, where there was no water, plumbing, electricity or telephone and picked up my older brother Wade and carried him to the public school in Shorter, Macon County Alabama.  I caught the same bus to the first grade in the same school in 1948.  I try to catch something of the spirit of the community in the episodes that I relate.  That is the school to which Mary Christine DeBardeleben returned in about 1945.  The missionary work that I describe in telling her story had not ended. The work of the Shorter Public School was excellent, and the story is worth telling, and I include that story. We got an excellent education, but in the 1960’s the little school white school in a predominantly Black county was caught up in the controversies of Civil Rights, while I was at Huntingdon College, and the University of Alabama Law School. It did not survive. But I returned to the County that gave me that education, and that is the environment that gave rise to my ideas.  Its all a matter of trying to understand. And being understood. I also tell the story of my work in the United Methodist Church.

A work in progress. I am seeking additional information, and hope to publish a formal biography later.

Over 30 opinion essays are included.  They deal with Law and Race, as well as opinions about the legal system itself and other miscellaneous topics.  Most of these were originally published in the Alabama Gazette, but I am likely to add too the collection.

I served as a lay speaker in the United Methodist Church for over forty years.  During that time, I served as Conference Lay Leader of the Alabama West Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church.  I had many opportunities for lay speaking.  Not nearly all were written out or recorded, but a fair sampling is included here. It is possible that more will be added as I review my records.  If anyone remembers a talk that I made and will remind me of if, I will look, or even reconstruct!