From the slave pens of the delta
From the slave pens of the delta (‘Let my people seek their freedom’). (T. Herbert O'Driscoll* 1928 -2024).
Carl P. Daw, Jr.* has noted Herbert O’Driscoll’s ability to write sermons and hymns with ‘the same attention to pivotal detail, the same gift for storytelling, the same ability to challenge and convince’ (Praise, My Soul, 2005). ‘From the slave pens of the delta’ is an example. Written in the context of the Exodus theology of the 1960s, it spoke to its time in a text as relevant today as it was at that turning point in human history: the Six Day War in Sinai, space travel, intergenerational conflict, the outbreak of the ‘Irish Troubles’, and conflicts which would engage United...
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