Dennis Covington

Dennis Covington, who died in April 2024, was the author of six books, including Salvation on Sand Mountain, a finalist for the National Book Award. His final book was Revelation: A Search for Faith in a Violent Religious World.

Caprock

Adventures worth the silence

By Dennis Covington | Thursday April 18, 2024
Sunset over Gettysburg battlefield

Rising Again

A writer finds much that hasn’t changed in the former Confederacy

By Dennis Covington | Monday July 22, 2019

The Death of Innocents

A look at the silent suffering of those caught in the crossfire

By Dennis Covington | Monday September 17, 2018

The Old Home Place

For many members of my family, it was a mental institution

By Dennis Covington | Friday March 23, 2018

Freelancing

When experience counts for more than a credential

By Dennis Covington | Friday March 16, 2018

Drought

Hard earth and hard truths

By Dennis Covington | Friday March 9, 2018

Piercing the Veil

When what’s past is present

By Dennis Covington | Friday March 2, 2018

Coming Home

A rediscovery of the familiar

By Dennis Covington | Friday February 23, 2018

Happy All the Time

Love and its many forms

By Dennis Covington | Friday February 16, 2018

Leaving Alabama

The joy and agony of crossing state lines

By Dennis Covington | Friday February 9, 2018

Broken Heart Syndrome

By Dennis Covington | Friday November 24, 2017

The Hindenburg Line

By Dennis Covington | Friday November 10, 2017

The Well

By Dennis Covington | Friday November 3, 2017

On Truth Telling and Dictatorship

By Dennis Covington | Tuesday October 31, 2017

The Inner Above

By Dennis Covington | Friday October 27, 2017

Caprock

By Dennis Covington | Friday October 20, 2017

One Nation Under God

By Dennis Covington | Monday March 6, 2017

Manifest Poverty

By Dennis Covington | Monday June 6, 2016

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