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• W4285356076 abstract "Francis X. Walter's From Preaching to Meddling:A White Minister in the Civil Rights Movement David E. Alsobrook (bio) From Preaching to Meddling: A White Minister in the Civil Rights Movement. By Francis X. Walter. Montgomery: NewSouth Books, 2021. 335 pp. $28.95. ISBN 978-1-5883-8390-7. Father Francis X. Walter, a retired Episcopalian priest, was born in Mobile in 1932 and currently resides in Sewanee, Tennessee, the site of his seminary studies at the University of the South in the mid-1950s. From Preaching to Meddling is Walter's brooding, evocative memoir of his life as a clergyman during the Civil Rights Era. Deeply honest, introspective, self-deprecating, witty, and occasionally sardonic, Walter's narrative reflects his own inner turmoil, indecision, self-doubts, and regrets. He engages in a lively, ongoing dialogue with Memoria, the impish fictitious muse of his youth, shining a merciless beam on his feckless naivete and prejudices. Walter not only queries Memoria about the accuracy of his recollections, he also edits youthful statements that he now considers to be incorrect. For example, he annotates a personal journal entry that characterizes Creoles as confirmed racists: [I'm ashamed to have written that in 1965. It wasn't true.] (36). [End Page 323] Despite idyllic memories of his early years on Mon Louis Island and in Spring Hill with his beloved second-level Old Mobile family during the Great Depression and World War II, Walter bitterly admits, The racist sins of my church were eating me up (15). After concluding his formal theological training in 1957, he could no longer silently condone an inherently evil system of virulent racism and its corrosive impact on African Americans and whites. Martha Marsh Walter exerted a profound influence on her idealistic young son. While ravaged with terminal breast cancer, she courageously protested against the Episcopalian diocese's racist ostracism of Father John Cole, a charismatic Black priest at the Church of the Good Shepherd, originally established in Mobile in 1854. Inspired by his mother's example, Francis Walter chose to emulate her, regardless of the potentially negative impact on his future pastoral career. Like other white southerners of that era who wrestled with crises of conscience over racial issues, Walter paid a heavy personal price for this fateful decision. He was branded as a traitor to his southern heritage, personified by long-dead Confederate ancestors. Walter's estrangement from family members, boyhood friends, and neighbors was an emotionally traumatic episode he never forgot. However, he equates memories of his mother's steadfast bravery and Father Cole's dignified compassion with Kairos, the Greek word for a defining moment (79). I heard in myself, he recalls, I will never be part of this system again. Never. Ever. I will fight. I will never give up (85). Girded with this personal mantra, Walter embarked on a lifelong journey of faith, conscience, and action. Following his ordination in 1957, Walter spent two years on sabbatical at the General Seminary in New York City. He befriended clerics of other faiths, including the Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church in Odessa and a South African nondenominational disciple of Mohandas Ghandi's philosophy of sacrifice and nonviolence. Total immersion in the spiritual and intellectual ferment of the General Seminary and New York deepened Walter's personal commitment to racial equality, human rights, and the nascent Civil Rights Movement. [End Page 324] As his sabbatical ended, Walter's thoughts turned toward home. After Father Cole departed from the Church of the Good Shepherd in 1959, Walter eagerly volunteered to replace him. Episcopalian Bishop Charles Carpenter in Birmingham, who opposed white priests serving in African American parishes, reluctantly acceded to Walter's wishes. Upon returning to the Port City, Walter found that his father's Mobile Cylinder Grinding Company partner (who happened to be the father-in-law of Francis Walter's sister) threatened to withdraw his share of the company's working capital. The message was clear—a white businessman's son in Mobile could not pastor a Black congregation. So, rather than subject his family to financial ruin, Walter withdrew from his first pastorate without delivering a single sermon or administering any of..." @default.
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