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Faith Family Academy of Oak Cliff won the 4A state championship title in March, and they did it in dramatic fashion. Liberty Hill High School tied the game at the Alamo Dome in San Antonio with 20 seconds to go in the fourth quarter. Faith Family Academy freshman Jordan Walsh came back with a buzzer-beating dunk to win the game. It was the public charter school’s first trip to the state tournament. “I can’t even believe we’ve done it,” coach Brandon Thomas told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “To win it in that fashion, it’s unreal. It’s a story-book ending.”
After-school fear The Dallas Police Department arrested two suspects in the string of armed robberies that targeted Oak Cliff middle and high school students leaving campus at the end of the day. Christopher Wade, 18, was charged with three counts of armed robbery. A 17-year-old, who isn’t being named because he is a juvenile, also was arrested. Police officers said both teens admitted to involvement, and they were questioning other suspects. At least six muggings occurred at or near Oak Cliff schools in February and March. The robbers held the students Armed robbery suspect Christopher Wade at gunpoint, demanded their phones and threatened violence. In a similar incident, a Cockrell Hill woman also was robbed of her backpack and cell phone while walking home. And men in a car, who were trying to lure students walking between classes on March 6, fired a shot into the air when the students continued walking.
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CONTENTS APRIL 2019 VOL.13 NO.4
UP FRONT 8 Dwell with Dignity Designers benefit formerly homeless 10 Where does Bonnie belong? Moving the outlaw Bonnie Parker 14 Tiny space, big heart This cocktail lounge has spirit
FEATURES 20 Two stories of minimalism A century-old South Winnetka charmer 28 Party like it’s 1949 Pappy’s Showland was the place to be
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EVENTS
APRIL 13
RECORD STORE DAY
Celebrate independent record stores in kinship with music nerds the world over. Spinster starts the day at 8 a.m., letting five people in at a time to browse exclusive releases and special editions. Spend more than $100 and get a free tote. They’ll also have coffee and doughnuts, and the party goes all day, with DJs and live performances. Be sure to support our neighborhood’s nonprofit record store, Top Ten Records, too.
Spinster Records, 829 W. Davis St. and Top Ten Records, 338 W. Jefferson Blvd. spinsterrecords.com and toptenrecords.org
5 things to do in Oak Cliff this April THROUGH APRIL 7
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Don’t miss your last chance to catch “Down for the Count,” the annual festival celebrating women playwrights. The shows include six one-act plays.
Oak Cliff Earth Day kicks off this year with the Run for the Environment 5K and 1-mile runs. They start at 9:30 a.m., and the Earth Day festival starts at 11 a.m.
Celebrate Dallas Art Month with the youth. El Día de los Niños art exhibit features work from nine Dallas ISD schools, including Rosemont, Sidney Lanier Arts Vanguard School, Travis TAG Academy and Arcadia Park Elementary.
Women playwrights
Where: Bishop Arts Theatre
Earth Day
Center, 215 S. Tyler St. More info: bishopartstheatre.org
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Psychedelic garage rock Seattle-based rockers the Night Beats perform a free show, with the Cosmonauts, from Los Angeles, opening. Where: The Foundry,
2303 Pittman St.
Where: Lake Cliff Park,
300 E. Colorado Blvd.
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Where: Oak Cliff Cultural
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HIGH-E ND, SE C OND -H A ND This nonprofit event highlights Oak Cliff designers
RUSS PETERS AND BILL CATES started working together 15 years ago, about five years into their domestic partnership. Peters wasn’t sure about the deal at first. Cates had left a long career working for a package design company that suddenly went out of business. “He said, ‘How about I go in with you, and we work together?’ ” Peters says. “I was like, uh, that’s a lot of together time.” Fifteen years on, their business relationship still works. Their personal partnership survived too. Peters and Cates live in Stevens Park Village, in a magazine-worthy house where they’ve been for 10 years. Their most challenging project was a total gut and redesign of a house on Edgefield Avenue in the Winnetka Heights Historic District. Now that house, as well as their own, is a centerpiece of their portfolio. And the owners, Barry and Karen French, are still friends of Peters and Cates. “They still like us, so I guess we did OK,” Cates says. The design firm’s work will be on display this month as part of Dwell with Dignity’s Thrift Studio. Dwell with Dignity, which celebrates its tenth anniversary this spring, is a non-profit that partners with the interior design industry to provide furniture and outfit homes for those moving into permanent housing. Moore is one of nine designers participating in the organization’s annual fundraiser called Thrift Studio. The pop-up shop features vignettes from each designer as well as fine art from 34 artists, including Oak Cliff-based Melissa Ellis. All items can be purchased, and 100 percent of the proceeds benefit the organization’s mission. An opening preview party April 4 includes cocktails and hors d’oeuvres and allows shoppers to get an early start. Pay $175 to check out the goods from 6-7 p.m. or $125 for access between 7-9 p.m. (Insider tip: Some enthusiasts start lining up at 4 p.m.) Otherwise, the pop-up shop is free until May 4, Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. “We always try to go to the opening party because it’s so much fun,” Peters says. “Every year it gets bigger and better.”
“You can take a shape that is pretty traditional and give it this unusual color, and that makes it modern in a way.”
This year their firm designed a living room. They found a sofa in the Dwell with Dignity warehouse and covered it in a dark green fabric with a contrasting welt. Kravet Inc. donated all of the fabrics in their display. “We can do anything we want because we don’t have a client,” Peters says. “So we wanted to have a big wow factor.” They went with a Santa Fe theme, pairing the sofa with two chairs upholstered in wide black-andkhaki stripes. They added an acrylic coffee table. And they covered a side table in shagreen. A dated, dark brown 1980s book case from the warehouse was painted “an unusual yellow-y green,” he says. “You can take a shape that is pretty traditional and give it this unusual color, and that makes it modern in a way,” he says. They pull it all together with a big sea-grass rug layered with an oriental rug, “so you get that layered, exotic look.” Add a big chandelier and mounds of pillows — donated from Sabira Collection — plus accessories, and it’s party-ready. For more information, go to dwellwithdignity.org and peterscates.com.
Interview by RACHEL STONE / Photography by NATHAN SCHRODER
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T HE BONE S OF BONNIE Bonnie and Clyde are buried miles apart, and relatives want to change that Rhea Leen Linder looks out the window of a truck at the former home of Lillie McBride, Raymond Hamilton’s sister, in what is now the 3000 block of North Winnetka. It is the site of a shootout where Clyde Barrow reportedly killed deputy sheriff Malcolm Davis.
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uddy Barrow and Rhea Leen Linder exit his Ford F150 and make toward the worn path to the Barrow gravesite in Western Heights Cemetery. Passersby walking on Fort Worth Avenue stop them and ask. Linder, 84 and tiny as a bird, tells them. Yes, this is where Clyde Barrow is buried. She’s friendly and talkative, Rhea Leen, who was born Bonnie Ray Parker after her aunt, the notorious outlaw from Cement City whose story has touched millions of people the world over. The aging heir to a notorious legacy, Linder recently made it her mission to move her aunt Bonnie Parker from Crown Hill Cemetery to Western Heights Cemetery in West Dallas to lie beside her love, Clyde Barrow.
The final stanza of Parker’s poem “The Trail’s End,” reads: Some day they’ll go down together they’ll bury them side by side. To few it’ll be grief, to the law a relief but it’s death for Bonnie and Clyde. By the spring of 1934, Parker and Barrow knew they were going to die at the hands of law enforcement. Parker, who was married to Roy Thornton at age 15 and never divorced, reportedly begged to be buried next to Barrow. But her mother, Emma Parker, was heartbroken, and she refused. He had her in life; he wouldn’t have her in death, she insisted. No one ever brought it up to the Parkers again for decades.
Story by RACHEL STONE / Photography by DANNY FULGENCIO
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HE CAN’T HAVE HER IN DEATH Following the bloody ambush near Arcadia, Louisiana, and a dramatic funeral in Downtown Dallas, Bonnie Parker was buried in West Dallas’ Fish Trap Cemetery, 2 miles from the Barrow plot. “It’s much nicer than Western Heights,” Linder says. But she was moved again in 1945 to Crown Hill because of frequent vandalism. Crown Hill was close to the home of Billie Jean Parker, Bonnie’s sister, who raised Rhea Leen Linder after her parents, both alcoholics, lost custody. Young Bonnie Ray Parker spent three years in a Houston orphanage and was 7 before Billie Jean, known as Jean, found her. Jean changed her niece’s name to Rhea Leen when she was in fourth grade to avoid ridicule. The family never talked much about her aunt, and Linder says her first husband’s parents, who were from West Dallas, never knew about her connection to Bonnie Parker. Linder had three husbands, who are all dead now, “but I didn’t do it,” she quips. Laying down your life for a man doesn’t run in the family she says. “I can’t imagine being so dedicated to another person,” Linder says. “She chose to go with him, knowing what the end would be.” Her friends, Charles Heard and Sherry Childress, asked Linder years ago why Bonnie and Clyde weren’t buried together. At first, Linder dismissed the idea. But now she’s convinced that moving the
Above: The headstone for Clyde Barrow and his brother Buck. Buddy Barrow dug up a crepe myrtle to be sure there’s for Bonnie Parker. Below: Rhea Leen Linder and Buddy Barrow
“I can’t imagine being so dedicated to another person.”
grave is the right thing to do. Bonnie and Clyde were criminals. But they’re also American folk heroes, and Rhea Leen and Buddy have met and heard from their ancestors’ “fans” all over the world. Most think they ought to be buried together, they say. And if they’re going to do it, it’s got to be soon. Linder had two children, but her son died in an accident in his 20s. And her adult daughter has no children. They are the last of the Parkers. april 2019 oakcliff.advocatemag.com
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WESTERN HEIGHTS Buddy Barrow says his family intended for Bonnie Parker to be buried in the Barrow plot. There is a space between Clyde and his mother, Cumie. Buddy even dug up a crepe myrtle tree near their headstones to make sure there’s space. Buddy Barrow says his grandfather used to keep a mower in the back corner of the cemetery and would walk from his filling station on what is now Singleton Boulevard to cut the grass. A Desoto church that no longer exists legally owns Western Heights Cemetery, and some of its members still mow it. It has a historic marker, but the old cemetery, which also holds the graves of Civil War soldiers, could use some care. With half-million dollar townhomes and luxury apartment complexes sprout up nearby, Western Heights cemetery needs fencing, walkways and lighting.
Buddy Barrow flips through the Barrow family photo album.
THE TRAIL’S END The last time Bonnie Parker saw her mother was in early May 1934, a few weeks before the death of Bonnie and Clyde. Buddy Barrow, who is the nephew of Clyde Barrow and son of L.C. Barrow, says Barrow and Parker family members met on a hill near the railroad tracks on Vilbig Road. That way they could see anyone coming. By then, Bonnie couldn’t walk. She’d sustained third-degree burns almost a year prior. Battery acid spewed all over her right leg after a car crash, and according to Buddy Barrow, the acid also caught fire. The burns were treated with baking soda, and she took medicine stolen from pharmacies, but she never saw a doctor. The Barrows and Parkers drank whiskey and talked until 2 a.m.
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“I always had resentment because of what they put their families through.”
OBSTACLES Getting Crown Hill Cemetery to agree to move its most famous resident might not be as simple. The cemetery at first balked at the idea, and Rhea Leen Linder even hired an attorney to figure out the legal obstacles. When WFAA reporter Jason Whitely asked the cemetery about it last year, they said the move would require a court order. Even if Linder gains permission to move the grave, there is the matter of cost. She and Barrow don’t have a plan for how to pay for exhumation, a new coffin, new headstones, a new burial. But they have ideas. Could there be a benefactor with West Dallas investments who would fund the move? With a new funeral for Bonnie Parker, the whole thing could be made into a festival of sorts. Would a production company or TV network be interested in making a documentary about moving the grave and therefore fund the costs of the move? Might a crowd-funding campaign have legs? Meanwhile, Buddy Barrow and Rhea Leen Linder remain their family history keepers. And they’re longtime friends, often traveling together for TV appearances and as guests at festivals and conventions. “My grandmother was so sweet, and she only lived 10 years after Bonnie died,” Linder says. “I always had resentment because of what they put their families through.”
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CITY COUNCILMAN SCOTT GRIGGS reached the end of his term limit and is among the candidates for Dallas mayor. Who will be the next City Council member for District 1? Four candidates are running in the May 4 election. SYLVANA ALONZO Founder of Oak Cliff Coalition for the Arts Inc., which puts on the annual Dallas Cinco de Mayo celebration on Jefferson Boulevard. Alonzo is a marketing professional who also works for the Alonzo Law Firm, which is owned by her husband, Roberto Alonzo, a Democrat member of the Texas House of Representatives. JEREMY T. BOSS A founder of the Bishop Arts Neighborhood Association and its first vice president. Boss is a single dad and avid dog rescuer who created the Dallas Animal Services accountability Facebook page. GIOVANNI VALDERAS Former vice chair of the City of Dallas Cultural Affairs Commission, appointed by Mayor Mike Rawlings. Valderas is an artist who is known for his “Casita Triste” public artworks that aim to shine a light on the city’s lack of affordable housing. CHAD WEST City Plan Commission member, appointed by Griggs. West is an attorney who owns his own firm in Oak Cliff and helps organize the annual Dash for the Beads 5K, which benefits local schools. Do you have questions for the candidates? If so, email rstone@advocatemag.com, and we might use your question in forthcoming interviews.
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ALL OF THE BARTENDERS at Tiny Victories dressed up as Bob Ross for Halloween. The soft-spoken host of “The Joy of Painting” became the bar’s mascot after a review mentioned that TVs were streaming the show, which aired on PBS from 1983-1994. After that, friends started sending them Bob Ross-related stuff, including a portrait of Ross painted in oils on a barrelhead. Bar manager Paul Ngo says the show began streaming on Netflix shortly after Tiny Victories first opened in March 2018. He put it on the TV one night, and customers were enthralled. Now it’s a whole thing in Oak Cliff bar culture. Another neighborhood bar, Oak Cliff Social Club, has two tip jars: one has a picture of Bob Ross and the other has rapper Rick Ross. Vote with dollars as to “who is more gangster.”
Tiny Victories 604 N. Tyler St. Hours: 4 p.m.-“late” Tuesday-Wednesday, 4 p.m.-2 a.m. Thursday-Friday, 2 p.m.-2 a.m. Saturday, 2 p.m.-“late” Sunday Price range: $4-$11
Tiny Victories doesn’t serve food (but it’s OK to order in or bring food) and their beer and wine lists are small. This is a cocktail lounge. Their list of 10 classic cocktails — Pimm’s cup, sazerac, pisco sour and the boulevardier among them — are listed with the years they were invented. They’re all $10. The list of cocktails Tiny Victories invented include “back dat cass up,” their people’s choice-award winning cocktail from Bastille on Bishop. It has gin, lemon, ginger, sugar and crème de cassis. Tiny Victories bartenders squeeze all their own juices and make their own syrups. They have trivia every Tuesday and “bitchy bingo” with drag queens every month.
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Top three Tiny Victories cocktail names: 1. MY NECK, MY DAQ ($8) It’s a beer and a shot — a longneck highlife and a “snaquiri,” a classic daiquiri as a shot 2. BIDI BIDI BOM BOM ($11) Tequila, mint, hibiscus agave and lime 3. BLU-TANG CLAN ($10) Mezcal, agave, lime, grapefruit, egg white, blue curacao (house-dyed with butterfly-pea tea) and banana liqueur
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he only two-story house in the 300 block of South Winnetka is probably the oldest. Owners Grant and Courtney Williamson think it was built in 1902, although official records put it at 1912. They bought the house three years ago, and it also came with more recent notability. Music producer John Congleton owned it previously, and rumor has it that rapper Andre 3000 once recorded here. They took out a renovation loan and learned that it required them to take care of all the unglamorous but necessary stuff first, namely, new electrical and a new roof. The roof wound up costing twice what they expected when workers found an older roof under their old roof. In the backyard, they filled in a 10,000-gallon koi pond and ripped out rotting wooden decks. One bonus of that was the discovery of a 1940s tile patio
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outside the backdoor. Aesthetically speaking, a lot of the transformation came from cans of paint. They had the exterior painted white with black trim. Inside, they painted everything white. They added some recessed lighting and replaced all of the ceiling fans. The one room they fully renovated is the upstairs bathroom, where they removed a claw-foot tub (they kept a second claw-foot tub in the downstairs bath) and added a glassed-in shower. Blueand-white floor tile adds a pop of color, and an oversized round mirror brings the room together. Courtney Williamson says her minimalist style comes naturally. “We get rid of things a lot,” she says. “When new things come in, something’s got to go.” It’s important to choose things for your house that you intend to keep for a long time, she says. And they pick up things on their travels that fit into their style and remind them of their trips. Liz Lambert of Bunkhouse,
Above: The Williamsons painted the kitchen white (its walls are covered in a convincing faux brick) and added black Silestone countertops. Left: The master bedroom epitomizes their use of white and neutrals. Opposite page, clockwise from top left: A detail of the master bedroom. The two-story house has two small “smoking porches” off the bedrooms. A view from the hallway into the dining room and office.
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the designer of Hotel San Jose in Austin and El Cosmico in Marfa, is a style influence. In the guest bedroom, Williamson pairs a Naugahyde chair from her grandparents’ beach house with a sleek metal table from Ikea. It’s a way to take something kitschy and make it feel modern, she says. The Williamsons moved to Oak Cliff from a townhome in Lakewood, and besides their unique house, they fell in love with the neighborhood. “We really bought into the community more than just a house,” Grant Williamson says. “People actually use their frontporch swings. People use their frontyards way more than their backyards, which says a lot about the neighborhood.”
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Left: The upstairs bathroom is the only room the owners fully renovated, adding a glassed-in shower, blue-and-white tile and an oversized mirror. Below: Even the children’s room sticks to white and neutrals, with pops of pink.
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BACK STORY
By RACHEL STONE
Pappy’s Showland The nightclub that made West Dallas glamorous
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efore luxury apartments lined West Commerce, and even earlier than that, before old motels sat rotting away and developers noticed that — hey! — West Dallas is a killer location and started tearing stuff down, before all that, there was Pappy’s. Pappy’s Showland opened at 500 W. Commerce St. in 1946. The owner, C.A. “Pappy” Dolsen, once owned a club with the notorious Las Vegas casino owner and one-time Dallas racketeer Benny Binion in the 1930s. Pappy knew Jack Ruby well. “He was a double-crosser,” Pappy told Texas Monthly in 1974. “He always wanted to get the best of you.” He owned the Colony Club with Abe Weinstein, and when Weinstein bought him out, Pappy went across the river and opened his own club. From the beginning, Pappy’s booked national acts. Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Henny Youngman and Bob Hope all performed there. Besides big bands and comedians, Pappy’s also had burlesque, circus acts and in the days of Jim Crow, he sometimes booked African-American performers for all-white audiences. Pappy’s was a huge club that could hold as many as 3,000 revelers. If your parents or grandparents lived in Oak Cliff in the mid-1900s there might be a photo of them all dressed up and ready for the show at Pappy’s. Message board user Earl Crumbie posted his memories of Pappy’s Showland in 2003. “It was bowl shape with a
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Partygoers at Pappy’s Showland in the 1940s.
dancing floor on the lowest level and … tiers up from the dance floor,” Crumbie wrote. The club also hosted boxing and wrestling matches, some of which were televised locally. Showland was the “least lucrative” club Pappy owned, according to the 1974 Texas Monthly article, although it doesn’t say why. It was very popular. Maybe Pappy spent all his money on building the enormous club and then couldn’t make it pay off. Texas Monthly describes the interior of the club: “Several 8 x 10 glossy photographs … show a large, high-
ceilinged rectangular room with an elaborate stage halfway down the longer wall, a stage large enough for a full orchestra plus plenty of room for a singer, tap dancers, or a stripper. In front of the stage is a dance floor surrounded by hundreds of round tables, large enough for six or eight people and all with white tablecloths.” Pappy’s closed in 1958 after Oak Cliff went dry, leaving its owner in debt to the tune of $110,000. By 1974, Pappy was 77 and a widower, living with four dogs and four cats in a house near Love Field. At the time, he was the city’s biggest
manager of strippers. Back then stripping was still more about performing burlesque than shaking that booty for dollar bills. Texas Monthly asked him what makes a good stripper: “It takes a gimmick. Some girls are beautiful, and that’s their gimmick. But you’ve got to have, you know, something to set you apart. I’ll tell you one thing: I don’t think a girl should take everything off. After you’ve seen it all, what mystery’s left? Why come back?” In December 1975, he celebrated his 79th birthday at a party with friends and 17 strippers. His picture with a scantily clad Chastity Fox made the newspaper. He died in January 1979 at age 82 and is buried at Grove Hill Memorial Park in Dallas. We couldn’t figure out when Pappy’s Showland was demolished, but for decades after it was the site of the Dallas West Mobile Home/RV park. The Pike West Dallas apartments were built there in about 2016.
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WORSHIP
By SCOTT SHIRLEY
Resurrection from little deaths Speaking hope into the lives of those who suffer
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t turns out that writing for a monthly magazine is not unlike life in ministry. We are always looking ahead to a season we are not currently living. As I write this, it is cold and cloudy, the kind of gloomy day it seems we’ve had too much of this winter. But this is Texas, so a few days ago it was warm and sunny. My neighbor’s pear tree is showing white. As I walk my dogs around the neighborhood, daffodils are poking their delicate petals out. It seems I’m not the only one anxious for a new season. Yet, by midsummer, I’ll be begging for rain and cold. As modern city folk, we can become disconnected from the seasons. We can control our environment to avoid the worst of the weather. Global agriculture and shipping mean that everything is always in season. My father used to tell me about watching a cold front come in across the fields in front of his childhood home, a wall of cold air rustling the crops. Even though he hasn’t lived in that rural world for 50 years, he still knows when a strawberry is really just right. In the Christian church, we also have seasons. Each year, we rehearse the rhythm of birth, death and rebirth. It begins at Christmas with hope, peace, joy and love. It ends tragically in the death of Jesus on the cross. Then life begins again in the Easter resurrection. Just as a dancer practices movements until they become automatic, until what once seemed impossible becomes routine, we rehearse until we master the impossible feat of rising from the dead. Death comes in many forms. Loss of life, obviously. But it can also be the loss of a job, the end of a relationship or an illness or injury that redefines the contours of our lives. Each of these can tear away at the person we thought we were, each one a little death. Each with an opportunity to rise again. But Easter commemorates the rising of a particular person from a particular death. Jesus did not just die; he was executed for standing against the oppression
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of his people by the Roman Empire and its accomplices in Jerusalem. His death was a sign and a warning to any who would resist this power. He was a just man treated unjustly. He stood for every innocent who suffers at the hands of the powerful – in life and in death. Rising from this death was God’s retort and the rallying cry for those who followed him. As we rehearse the Easter resurrection, as we each rise from our little deaths into new life, we must also echo that rallying cry, speaking hope into the lives of those who suffer. Every day, people are marginalized,
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“If we are to call ourselves an Easter people, a resurrection people, we must not only rise, but rise up against these deathdealing systems so that all might rise.”
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exploited and oppressed by the powers and principalities of this world, the systems of power in which we are all enmeshed. Racism. Sexism. Heterosexism and homophobia. The degradation of the Earth. Impoverishment. These – and so many others! – deal death to people every day. If we are to call ourselves an Easter people, a resurrection people, we must not only rise, but rise up against these death-dealing systems so that all might rise. In Easter, death is overcome. At Easter time, let us preach what we practice, the promise of new life for all. Scott Shirley is the pastor of Church in the Cliff. This is his first column for The Advocate. The Worship section is underwritten by Advocate Publishing and the neighborhood businesses and churches listed here. For information about helping support the Worship section, call 214.560.4202.
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Texas law prohibits hospitals from practicing medicine. The physicians on the Methodist Health System medical staff including those referenced in this advertisement are independent practitioners who are not employees or agents of The Liver Institute at Methodist Dallas, Methodist Health System, or any of its affiliated hospitals. Methodist Health System complies with applicable federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex.