Voices
![](/sites/default/files/styles/voice_details_page/public/profile_photo/Harper_-28.jpg?itok=YY5Zbz-A)
Ryan Harper is a visiting assistant professor in New York University's Religious Studies Program. He is the author of The Gaithers and Southern Gospel: Homecoming in the Twenty-First Century.
Arts & CultureBooks
If Thoreau’s words merely decorate the playrooms of grown children, his burial is long overdue.