William J. Everett

For over thirty years William Everett taught ethics in theological seminaries and graduate schools in Milwaukee, Atlanta, and Boston as well as in Germany, India, and South Africa. He wrote a number of books and articles in the field of Christian social ethics before turning to poetry and fiction writing. His Red Clay, Blood River (2008) is a wide-ranging eco-historical novel about connections between America's "Trail of Tears" and South Africa's "Great Trek." His Turnings: Poems of Transformation (2013) employs a style arresting to the ear as well as to the mind and spirit. With John DeGruchy, South African theologian and woodworker, he recently composed Sawdust and Soul: A Conversation on Woodworking and Spirituality, a lively reflection on the ancient craft that finds expression in his furniture creations for worship settings. His reflective memoir Mining Memories on Cyprus 1923-25 (2018) tells, through his grandparents' photographs and documents, the story of their life at the world's oldest copper mine. His "expository memoir," Making My Way in Ethics, Worship, and Wood, traces the key contours of his thought over his varied career. A collection of his key essays entitled A Covenantal Imagination gives readers a sense of the scope and depth of his work. Most recently, he has set forth the theology and practice of "roundtable worship," reflecting his crafting of round communion tables over the past twenty-five years. He and his wife Sylvia live in the mountains of western North Carolina.