March 8, 2003 journal, speaking at State Museum, Christians put in way of controversy.

I had a nice motel room at Orangeburg and ask for a 6:00 a.m. wakeup call which never came. I had to dress in a rush and speed off in the fog toward Columbia to not be late for the South Carolina Traditional Art Network meeting and prepare my art and slides in the meeting room prior to the opening. Quoting from the literature in the package given me, "Seeing things: The evidence of belief (religious) tradition through S C Visual Art in the Red Room and Lipscomb art gallery. South Carolina State Museum chief curator of art, Paul Matheny will moderate this discussion and present an overview of visual art works that focus on, incorporate, and document religious and traditional beliefs from the state. Sessions includes presentations by a visionary artist William Thomas Thompson from Greenville, ceramic artist Peter Lenzo from Columbia, both will discuss their work. Art conservator Craig Crawford will discuss the treatment of early 20th-century Biblical mural paintings by Amohamen Millia in the Central Baptist Church, a late 19th century church designed and built by freed slaves in Charleston, South Carolina. Camp Meeting and Praise Houses, Auditorium. Independent filmmaker Stan Woodward will moderate this session focused on the belief traditions associated with the tradition of Camp Meetings in South Carolina. He’ll be joined by Kathy Sepco, Vinnie Deas-Moore, and Minuette Floyd. The afternoon session consist of Keeping House: domestic and healing beliefs in the South conducted in the Red Room moderated by conference keynote speaker Erika Brady, Mare Dowdey, Gail McKinley, Nancy Hardesty will discuss traditional beliefs in domestic arts and healing practices that they learned from people in their families and communities. Maree will present information related to quilting, soap making, and planting and Gale will discuss herbal remedies and a little known tradition of blood stopping, a traditional healing method that was passed on to her by a woman of Cherokee and European descent. Ancient Spiritual and Contemporary Expression of South Carolina Indigenous People, Hosted by Will Goins and Keith Brown, this panel will discuss the historic contemporary practices and belief traditions among South Carolina’s indigenous people. Panelist and performers for this session include Vedia Counts, keith Pounds and Michele Pounds. S C Legends and Ghost Stories Vista Room, Ann Richardson and Angelique Gibson will discuss South Carolina legends, folk tales and ghosts. Anne will share information on her performance project from the Palmetto Center for the performing Arts at Richland North-east High School titled "Mostly Ghostly" and Angelique will present information on an ongoing oral history and documentary film project. Emerging Religious Traditions. South Carolina is made of many different faith based and belief traditions from many cultures, the majority of those being European-based. Moderated by Robin Waite from the Historic Columbia Foundation, this session will look at religious traditions from other communities from a growing presence in our community. Frank Haflin will provide in-sight on the south Carolina Dharma Group, Tod Ewing will discuss B’hai traditions in S.C.. Varsha Parikh will discuss the Hindu traditions, and her daughter will perform traditional Hindu dance. Sharon Lenzinger will demonstrate the practice of Chi-Gong and Craig Stinson will present information relating to Latino traditions in South Carolina. Gospel and Hymn Choir Traditions and Closing Recession”. I deeply appreciate this opportunity to show my art. The reception was extraordinary with genuine participation and applause. I carry forward the subject of Christians in controversy. God has put us here for a purpose and that is to stand for the truth in the broad way of sin and Sinners.