Passing by Samaria by Sharon Ewell Foster

I caught the program midway, so I don’t know who he was really speaking to, but he said, “We had to risk our lives.

But the truth is that in the sixties, he and other people put their lives on the line for what they believed in. Then one day, I heard Jesse Jackson on television. It was my worst nightmare come true: public humiliation concerning the thing about which I felt most vulnerable. I guess I wasn’t supposed to know that or say it out loud. White people are human, like black people. Some excel, some struggle, and most are somewhere in the middle. That’s when I learned that white people aren’t superior, they’re just people. That’s when I learned how cruel white people could be to other white people. And the teachers didn’t want to be bothered with them. There were three of them, all of them older than me. So, at eight years old, I was teaching these poor white kids. One of the things that happened to me was that my teacher assigned me to teach a reading group, rather than be in one. So, I shared the story of being a black child in a newly integrated community. They were vicious and personal.Ī lot of Riding through Shadows is autobiographical. (What do critics know?)Īnyway, most of the critics raked me over the coals! Read the reviews at. I know it is, because the English teacher who taught me the most about writing, the one that was the most demanding and pulled no punches, told me it was. It’s about how we terrorize ourselves and one another. It’s about the spiritual implications of things we do in our own backyards. It’s not about battling some great behemoth or battling some entity that’s from another country. It’s book about spiritual warfare, a really strong book. I wrote this book called Riding through Shadows.

Is there a particularly difficult set back that you’ve gone through in your writing career you are willing to share? You don’t want to leave your baby with crazy people. So, it’s important to know them, the publisher, and if they will make good caretakers for your baby.

And you have to trust your baby into other people’s hands. Your baby has just been born and there’s so much to do. What’s something you wish you’d known earlier that might have saved you some time/frustration in the publishing business?įinishing the manuscript is just the beginning. For all this, Sharon gives God the glory! He has done great things for her, whereof she is glad! (Psalm 126) She has received three starred reviews-which is a rarity among writers-and is winner of the Christy Award, the Gold Pen Award, Best of Borders, and several reviewers choice awards. She is the author of Passing by Samaria, the first successful work of Christian fiction by an African American author, the book that blazed the trail for other African American Christian fiction authors. Sharon Ewell Foster is a critically acclaimed, award-winning author, speaker, and teacher.

Passing by Samaria by Sharon Ewell Foster