culture – Carole J. Garrison

Inhospitable America

Has anything changed at America’s airports? We wear masks—carts are still not free and America is still not hospitable.

Then a colleague of mine, who was pastor of the “quiet” Black church downtown, invited me to attend a service. He said it was quiet because it wasn’t a Holy Roller church; however, it was anything but quiet by UU standards—or even Jewish norms. The choir was magnificent . . . as were the hats the ladies wore.