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100 1  Archibald, John,|d1963-|eauthor. 
245 10 Shaking the gates of hell :|ba search for family and truth
       in the wake of the civil rights revolution /|cJohn 
       Archibald. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bAlfred A. Knopf,|c2021. 
264  4 |c©2021 
300    x, 304 pages :|billustrations ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    Includes index. 
500    "This is a Borzoi book" -- title page verso. 
520    On growing up in the American South of the 1960s--an all-
       American white boy--son of a long line of Methodist 
       preachers, in the midst of the civil rights revolution, 
       and discovering the culpability of silence within the 
       church. "My dad was a Methodist preacher and his dad was a
       Methodist preacher," writes John Archibald. "It goes all 
       the way back on both sides of my family. When I am at my 
       best, I think it comes from that sermon place." Everything
       Archibald knows and believes about life is "refracted 
       through the stained glass of the Southern church. It had 
       everything to do with people. And fairness. And 
       compassion." In Shaking the Gates of Hell, Archibald asks:
       Can a good person remain silent in the face of 
       discrimination and horror, and still be a good person? 
       Archibald had seen his father, the Rev. Robert L. 
       Archibald, Jr., the son and grandson of Methodist 
       preachers, as a moral authority, a moderate and a 
       moderating force during the racial turbulence of the '60s,
       a loving and dependable parent, a forgiving and attentive 
       minister, a man many Alabamians came to see as a saint. 
       But was that enough? Even though Archibald grew up in 
       Alabama in the heart of the civil rights movement, he 
       could recall few words about racial rights or wrongs from 
       his father's pulpit at a time the South seethed, and this 
       began to haunt him. In this moving and powerful book, 
       Archibald writes of his complex search, and of the 
       conspiracy of silence his father faced in the South, in 
       the Methodist Church and in the greater Christian church. 
       Those who spoke too loudly were punished, or banished, or 
       worse. Archibald's father was warned to guard his words on
       issues of race to protect his family, and he did. He spoke
       to his flock in the safety of parable, and trusted in the 
       goodness of others, even when they earned none of it, 
       rising through the ranks of the Methodist Church, and 
       teaching his family lessons in kindness and humanity, and 
       devotion to nature and the Earth. Archibald writes of this
       difficult, at times uncomfortable, reckoning with his past
       in this unadorned, affecting book of growth and evolution.
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