Letter to the Editor: Thanks for Candace Echols’ columns on faith
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Regarding “Candace Echols on writing about herself, her family and her faith”
Eric Barnes’ conversation with Candace Echols is interesting, particularly the part about her faith-influenced writing for The Daily Memphian.
Some object to such expression through a news medium, considering it unsuitable. However, Mr. Barnes, whose business is the news, has a different take: Various perspectives in opinion articles that challenge our ways of thinking are appropriate to a newspaper.
His point reminds me of what so many assume — life is plain and flat and material. But what if it has dimensions beyond immediate perception? What if they are spiritual? What if there are invisible realities that have demonstrable effects on people?
Ms. Echols’ perspective may be evoking these sorts of questions, causing readers to rethink their assumptions, perhaps rethink the commonly assumed absence of God. This likelihood speaks well for The Daily Memphian’s inclusion of her columns.
Warner Davis
Retired minister from Collierville Presbyterian Church
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