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Refusal of Despair – James Baldwin

November 12, 2025

“Baldwin calls the willingness to lose everything a refusal of despair. He is describing divine freedom. He is describing the freedom that is called witness.”
 

—Jamie McGhee & Adam Hollowell, You Mean It Or You Don’t: James Baldwin’s Radical Challenge Our Lift Every Voice Book Club selection for November & December
 

What invitation do you receive from this call to divine freedom?
 

View or listen to our conversation with the one of the authors, Jamie McGhee, here.

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