A sermon for the feast of Deaconess Alexander 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5 Teaching was a subversive act. Teaching changes attitudes and opinions. Not everyone wanted change. So the State of Georgia punished teaching enslaved Africans to read with heavy fines and imprisonment. “Merely teaching them to read, ‘impairs their value as slaves, for it instantly destroys … Continue reading The Subversive Act of Teaching