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Call & Response

Call & Response: The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead

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Worship resources

Date

Title

#98 ‘Tough on crime’ policies endanger the public

#105 A bucket of chicken

#37 A message for Mothers’ Day

#3 All that matters

#80 Amazing grace

#78 Anti-Catholic sentiment as public safety

#14 At the zoo, on display

#91 Beyond the wall (part 1)

#92 Beyond the wall (part 2)

#6 Blood on my sleeves

#101 Breaking news

#13 Breaking the silence

#69 Bringing in the new year

#24 Caged canaries

#103 Carrying my side of the plexiglass

#75 Contradictions

#102 Conversation with a dear friend

#67 Dance to the flame

#96 Demons in the grave

#76 Do you love your friends?

#63 Domesticated

#79 Down in the river to pray

#84 Easy doesn’t come easy

#60 Fear of acceptance

#26 Fine dining in prison

#77 For freedom

#17 Give me a sign

#25 Hanging in the jar life

#32 Highrise, part one

#33 Highrise, part two

#97 How do you see yourself

#81 How great thou art

#72 Hypertension

#89 In your eyes

#94 Insane world

#48 Inside of outside

#64 Invest in rehabilitation, not punishment

#99 Judicial pantomime

#41 Learning process

#62 Leaving Eden

#52 Marching orders

#23 Me and mine

#18 O Christmas tree

#38 One quiet breath

#28 Pantoum of the forgotten prisoner

#43 Pawn sacrifice

#44 Potential to evolve

#10 Prison is time

#83 Reality check

#90 Refusing to die

#61 Small windows

#95 Sorry that I let you down

#104 Story of mine

#86 Supervision failures

#85 Synthesizing freedom

#74 Talking to my mom in autumn

#21 Talking to myself

#2 Ten cent a minute

#54 The darkness of nights past

#34 The elephant in the room

#66 The gift of song

#53 The great American eclipse 2017

#58 The last lifeline

#68 The longest night

#45 The noisy blanket

#57 The right to remain silent

#100 The timestretcher

#88 The weather

#31 They took my baby away

#20 Three Shifts of an Eleventh Hour

#51 Through the fog

#56 To shine, beat the sun up

#9 Twenty years

#8 Undead: voices from the grave

#59 When I look

#93 When killers cry

#71 When You Look at Me

#65 Where does it end?

#70 You Have No Idea

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Mass incarceration

Generational trauma

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#31 They took my baby away

I remember holding you in my arms. You made cooing sounds, and I wanted to know exactly what each one meant

Paul Brown2017/04/02

Notes

I remember holding you in my arms
You made cooing sounds
And I wanted to know exactly what each one meant

Written in response to The Underground Railroad (public library) by Colson Whitehead.

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