Culture: May 2021 Archives

Twitter thread by @WokeTemple on Thread Reader App

"My evangelical Christian explain their teachings. My Woke friends yell at me and say 'EDUCATE YOURSELF!' My evangelical Christian are Black, white, brown and yellow from all over the world. My Woke friends are mostly white and from New Jersey.... My evangelical Christian friends say, 'I am broken. I am trying to fix myself. My Woke friends say, 'You are broken. I am trying to fix you.' My evangelical Christian friends say, 'I am sinful, but there is hope and redemption.' My Woke friends say, 'You are sinful, and there is no hope and no redemption.'"

Eudora Welty and Walker Percy on Firing Line, December 24, 1972

William F. Buckley interviewed Southern novelists Walker Percy and Eudora Welty about the Southern imagination for his December 24, 1972 edition of Firing Line, recorded on December 12. This transcript was published in The Chesterton Review.