Time to Reconcile The Odyssey of a Southern Baptist

Grace Bryan Holmes was born in rural Georgia in 1919. During a troubled childhood, she frequently found solace in the black servants who cared for her family part-time. After the death of one of these servants, she resolved to help the woman's surviving children & grandchildren. Over the course of her life, this commitment altered her perspective on the racial prejudice so prevalent in her community. She shouldered the burden of her growing awareness through many years of service as the wife of a rising Baptist minister, until the gradual assertion of the convictions she had formed in silence brought her into direct conflict with prevailing social attitudes, her strong-willed mother, & her husband's congregation. Time to Reconcile is a redemptive account of a southern woman's struggle to free herself from the legacies of prejudice, parental domination, paternalism, & class-consciousness that had defined her life & constricted her thinking. Holmes's vividly detailed & extraordinarily honest recollections offer a refreshingly candid look at the fabric of southern society in the mid-twentieth century.Holmes, Grace Bryan is the author of 'Time to Reconcile The Odyssey of a Southern Baptist', published 2000 under ISBN 9780820322179 and ISBN 0820322172.