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- A memoir of history, faith & resilience
Crossroads
- Places We Meet History, the Ancestors, and God
At the intersection of lived experience and divine intervention there is a sacred meeting place — where the ancestors’ resilience, the community’s ongoing struggle, and God’s undeniable presence converge.
Rev. Livingston braids personal memoir with Civil Rights history and theology, from childhood summers in the segregated South to Emmett Till, Orangeburg, and Fannie Lou Hamer. The sacred is not confined to church walls. It is in the whispered prayers of grandmothers and the quiet resolve of those who refuse to give up hope.
- Crossroads
- 1
Emmett Till
Where does your narrative intersect with history?
- 2
The Orangeburg Massacre
Three students slain. Their killers were acquitted.
- 3
Fannie Lou Hamer
Sharecropping and faith confronting injustice
- 4
The Black Church
What spiritual inheritance are you carrying forward?
- 5
Come Sunday
A glorious day in the life of the Black Church
- 6
Grandma’s Hands
Black women, womanism, keepers of the flame
- 7
Our Inconvenient Hero
Martin Luther King, Jr. — now that he is safely dead
- 8
Recovering the Elder
Black men and the community elder image
- 9
Permission Not Needed: Rethinking the Black Experience and Culture
Empowerment is in knowing thyself.
“If there were a thousand Sundays, I always say, we were in church for at least 980 of them. It would need to be what seemed like a near death with illness to be excused.”
“We have lost the significance in our understanding of history because we rush through these intersections with very little attentiveness to the specific details of what actually happened, or the humanity of those who experienced it.”
- From the Preface
- Congregations & adult education
An eight-week series — one chapter per week, each ending in theological reflection and reader questions.
- Book clubs
Discussion questions built into every chapter: connection, historical awareness, theological insight, personal intersection, legacy and action.
- Classrooms
Pairs memoir with primary Civil Rights history for Africana Studies, religion, and American history courses.
- Black History Month programs
Chapter readings that work as standalone programs, with the author available to join by video or in person.
- Discussion guide available free · Request it
