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The Women Gather

The following poetic piece comes from a sermon originally preached on Monday, March 2, 2015, at the American Baptist Seminary of the West in Berkeley, California during the weekly chapel service fourteen months after my 21-year-old son was murdered. I have permission from my niece, Clanci, to use her name in this sermon. The introduction was added in June 2017. The lament, “The Women Gather,” as sung by the acapella group, Sweet Honey in the Rock, was chanted throughout the sermon and it is quoted in this written rendition of the message.