An Incomplete Reconciliation
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But it is not just the straightforward testimony to life with Christ that stirred me. Ironically, in the week since first reading Home to Holly Springs, I have found that it is Karon’s limited reckoning with racism that has most deeply convicted me. It is one thing, an easy thing, for me to sit at my desk—next to a trash can that was emptied this morning, long before I got to work, by an African American service worker—and point out the social sin that shaped Timothy Kavanaugh’s childhood home in the Jim Crow South. It is quite another for me to scrutinize my own home in the New South, and try, however incompletely, to reckon with the still-persistent social sin that shapes my own life. It is to that scrutiny and reckoning that Jan Karon’s new novel, perhaps willy-nilly, bids us.
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