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Bill Maxwell to Lead Sunday School Feb. 5

Bill Maxwell will be our guest speaker for Sunday School on Sunday, February 5, 2006, at 10 a.m. Maxwell currently serves as Professor of Journalism at Stillman College and also writes challenging columns for the Tuscaloosa News. Prior to moving to Tuscaloosa to resume his teaching career, Maxwell spent 10 years writing for The St. Petersburg Times. Over the years, Maxwell has become well known for his provocative opinions. His readers tend to either love him or hate him, but they all agree that Maxwell forces them to think. Join us on Feb. 5 as Bill Maxwell challenges our congregation to re-examine issues of race from his unique perspective.

Links to Explore:

Mr. Maxwell suggests the following Google search as a jumping off point for his discussion, in which he will touch on the racial stereotype regarding watermelons...Click here.

Bill is the founder and publisher of Role Models Today - see their website here:
Role Models Today

Here's a link where you can read more of Bill's columns:
http://www.sptimes.com/columns/maxwell.shtml

Read a tribute to Bill from his editor at the St. Petersburg Times:
Farwell to a Good Man

Here are links to some of Bill's most recent columns in the Tuscaloosa News:

BILL MAXWELL: Tests, grades do not reveal one’s potential
A few days ago, one of my former students at Stillman College asked me to write a recommendation for her to attend graduate school. Although her writing was average and she missed several classes, I wrote the recommendation without a second thought..
Date: 01/23/06

BILL MAXWELL: Martin Luther King Day is an American enigma
Of all U.S. holidays, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is the most enigmatic. It’s an enigma because of the conflicting forces that made it a reality.
Date: 01/16/06

BILL MAXWELL: Reform is not a speed trap, but a nice small town
When I read Howard Holley’s Dec. 20 letter in The Tuscaloosa News accusing the town of Reform of operating a speed trap on U.S. Highway 82, I thought, “Here we go again: Another motorist who slept through the section in the driver’s manual...
Date: 01/09/06

BILL MAXWELL: More young blacks are suicidal
A popular Dick Gregory joke when I was a teenager was that white people committed suicide by jumping from skyscrapers, while blacks killed themselves by leaping from their basements. It always cracked us up.
Date: 01/02/06

BILL MAXWELL: Debated book is story of love and respect
I hadn’t heard of the novel “Summer of My German Soldier" until Dec. 14, when I read about the budding controversy surrounding the book. It’s required reading for 10th-graders at Holt High School.
Date: 12/26/05

BILL MAXWELL: Knowing 'the whole student’
Because I’m an associate professor at Stillman College and because the campus is isolated from the rest of Tuscaloosa, I want to show readers a side of the school that makes it and the nation’s other 106 historically black colleges and universities...
Date: 12/19/05

BILL MAXWELL: Thoughtful gifts are the best part of Christmas
I celebrate Christmas only with my mother and my siblings because I don’t want other people’s narrow politics and self-righteous religiosity in my life.
Date: 12/12/05