God gave no other rainbow sign, don't you see?

God gave no other rainbow sign, don't you see?

God gave no other rainbow sign.

No more one of the far next time.

Hide me, oh, rock on the ages,

swim for me.

That is a song from the Carter family.

God gave Noah the rainbow sign.

God gave Noah the rainbow sign.

Don't you see? Don't you see? God gave no the rainbow sign. Don't you see. Don't you see? God gave Noah the

rainbow sign. Don't you see? God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water with the fire next time.

Hide me over a rock of ages. But for me. Yes, yes. This is a little bit from the Bible, you know,

where Noah was promised a rainbow to say,

you know, I will not flood you, but it'll be the fire next time. And that is where James Baldwin,

whose daddy was a creature, also a little bit brutal, maybe a lot bit brutal, got the title for

his book, The Fire Next Time, which we're going to be talking about today.

It is a letter to his nephew who was named for him, James.

Big James, they called him because he was a big baby, and James Baldwin's a little baby.

So actually his nephew, his younger nephew, was called Big James.

I am starting here because this month marks the 63rd anniversary of the publishing

of the fire next time and I feel like we're in it. God promised a rainbow, no more floods,

but there will be fire and fire purifies, it destroys, it burns, it does a lot of things,

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