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South to Death

South to Death SC 11.1-Higgins 1/5/05 11:59 AM Page 26   ...................... by Earl Higgins Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. —Romans 12:19 Thou shalt not kill. —Exodus 20:13 In tones darker than those used to proclaim the Gospel, preachers invoke the exacting, death-demanding God of Leviticus as often as the forgiving, redeeming Jesus of Nazareth. Photograph by Katy V. O’Brien. 26 SC 11.1-Higgins 1/5/05 11:59 AM Page 27 riving across the South, Virginia to Texas, periodically tap- ping the search function on the radio, one hears a continual message of God. The music is about God: country, gospel, Christian contemporary, blues. The talk is of God. God is wit- D nessed to and proclaimed by the preachers and the musicians and the call-in talkers, with messages both soft and hard. The old roads of the South, not the Interstate Highways, those most homogeneous and homogenizing engines of American culture, are full of churches, churches that only occasionally have names like St. Cecilia’s or Trinity Episcopal. The Southern Baptist affiliation boasts large numbers but is aggressively challenged by the independent evangeli- cals, the Pentecostals, the Holiness people. The radio preachers, Christians all who confess belief in repentance, redemption, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

South to Death

Higgins, Earl.
Southern Cultures , Volume 11 (1) – Feb 28, 2005
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SC 11.1-Higgins 1/5/05 11:59 AM Page 26   ...................... by Earl Higgins Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. —Romans 12:19 Thou shalt not kill. —Exodus 20:13 In tones darker than those used to proclaim the Gospel, preachers invoke the exacting, death-demanding God of Leviticus as often as the forgiving, redeeming Jesus of Nazareth. Photograph by Katy V. O’Brien. 26 SC 11.1-Higgins 1/5/05 11:59 AM Page 27 riving across the South, Virginia to Texas, periodically tap- ping the search function on the radio, one hears a continual message of God. The music is about God: country, gospel, Christian contemporary, blues. The talk is of God. God is wit- D nessed to and proclaimed by the preachers and the musicians and the call-in talkers, with messages both soft and hard. The old roads of the South, not the Interstate Highways, those most homogeneous and homogenizing engines of American culture, are full of churches, churches that only occasionally have names like St. Cecilia’s or Trinity Episcopal. The Southern Baptist affiliation boasts large numbers but is aggressively challenged by the independent evangeli- cals, the Pentecostals, the Holiness people. The radio preachers, Christians all who confess belief in repentance, redemption,

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Published: Feb 28, 2005

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