Taking The Long View, this book represents the life and witness of Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery. In the annals of the church, there are few leaders who are greater or who have spoken with a clearer voice. Born during the height of the Jim Crow era in Huntsville, Alabama, Dr. Lowery has been singing the Lord's song in a strange land his whole life. Life, he says, is a strange land, not as orderly as we might like, but even so we must do God's will, even in and under difficult circumstances.