How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South Music Each of these letters is

Each of these letters is a gentle nudge in the direction of God's powerfully ordinary purpose for each of us

and profound faith

and meditate on Jesus' triumph over sin and death

That the pot on your stove will always be full enough to feed an extra mouth

Different Now Village Everything's As It Should Be Let It Go The Brave One Death Without A Funeral Teenagers Mirage Your Worst Day The End Of A World Light A Candle

How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South Music Each of these letters isFor much of his life, Esau McCaulley was taught to see himself as an exception: someone who, through hard work, faith, and determination, overcame childhood poverty, anti Black racism, and an absent father to earn a job as a university professor and a life in the middle class. But that narrative was called into question one night, when McCaulley answered the phone and learned that his fatherwhose absence defined his upbringingdied in a car crash.