Martin Luther King, Jr. knew about the value of unity and organization to nonviolent public witness. His book Stride Toward Freedom: the Montgomery Story is about the 1955-56 boycott of public buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in an effort to break segregation. Ultimately, the boycott worked, though it took a year. Impatience and violence would have undermined theContinue reading “A battle within the battle: fighting for life, in a spirit of love”
Author Archives: Ellen Kolb
Writer, activist, Granite State walker.
Healing, serving, thriving: Melissa Ohden on the Abortion Survivors Network
Excerpted from a post at Braided Trails. By the time Melissa Ohden wrote her book You Carried Me, she had already spent several years sharing her story publicly. That didn’t come easily to her – “I’m most comfortable behind the scenes, to be perfectly honest” – but she knew that speaking out was the only wayContinue reading “Healing, serving, thriving: Melissa Ohden on the Abortion Survivors Network”
A Pilgrimage of Discovery: Finding Flannery
Finding Flannery: A Travel Memoir Exploring the Mystique of Flannery O’Connor and the Legacy She Has Left Us All (En Route Books and Media LLC, 2025) by Christina Brajkovich, Karen Anne Mahoney, and Roxane B. Salonen A book with three authors can be disjointed, but Finding Flannery flows smoothly from one chapter to the next.Continue reading “A Pilgrimage of Discovery: Finding Flannery”
