Echols: ‘This past year has been a test for my faith’
“How do I write openly about the God I worship even as I do not understand why he is allowing such painful things to take place in our city?”
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September 2023
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Echols: Celebrating the ‘verbal waltz’ of Mississippians
“Not all Mississippians have gotten it right throughout history, and that’s easy to see. But what we can learn from the natives who speak rightly is how to convey difficult ideas with gentleness.”
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August 2023
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Echols: Older people, please come to church
“Young people need people who have a different perspective not only in race or gender or socioeconomic status, but in age.”
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Echols: Questions to reframe how we think about Memphis
“People in our city are considering a lot right now. We are thinking through family histories that are long, friendships that are time-tested, and roots that run deep. “
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Echols: ‘Memphis, we must not overlook each other’
“Our people are gold. They’re not the type you just walk out on. ... The everyday folks that make up Memphis are awesome.”
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Echols: A column for those who’ve had a brush with Christianity
“Perhaps they grew up going to church, but it felt dull. Perhaps they went to Christian school, but didn’t click with their classmates. Perhaps they had a sibling or a friend or a mother who prayed for them, but it never really took.”
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July 2023
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Echols: Things that are true, right, pure, honorable and lovely. (Literally.)
“There are seasons when darkness snuffs out creativity. But every time we make something new and beautiful — something life-giving and delightful — we push back on all that darkness.”
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Echols: The first question we will be asked
“You don’t have to live long to realize life on this earth is decidedly short. Eternity, on the other hand, is just that: eternal.”
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Echols: Let London have Wimbledon. Baseball is America’s pastime.
“We would head back to Busch Stadium and find our spot on the fold-down, red plastic chairs — the ones you would have to peel the backs of your thighs off of each time you would stand up to cheer. Because it was hot. So, so hot.”
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June 2023
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Echols: What is your Nashville, Night Three?
“The Taylor vibe was strong not only on stage but also in the crowd, and it came out in how her fans looked and in how they sang, in how happy they were to be in her presence and in how they were a unified reflection of the one they came to see.”
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Echols: Like a cool cup of water on a very hot day
“That small smile created a bridge and invited me to walk across — if only by smiling back. As a society, we are fractured in a million jagged ways ... that smile was a step toward reconnection.”
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April 2023
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Echols: ‘And that’s Easter’
“I’ll admit that the Easter bunny is cute and tons of fun – he swings by our house every year. The eggs are nice. The flowers are a delight. In their own ways, they all point to new life. But there is nothing that compares with celebrating what it means for humanity that Jesus walked out of that tomb.”
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Echols: ‘This is our chance to love our sister city’
“Memphis — tough, strong, seasoned Memphis — this is our chance to be soft. This is our chance to love our sister city — to be the ones who understand. This is our chance to be with.”
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March 2023
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Echols: ‘The salve I need on this long journey home’
“I think maybe every time I’ve left a piece of my heart somewhere, I have been cataloging signposts — signposts that point to a place where all good things will not come to an end.”
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Echols: Taking shelter together
“Those two elderly people have lived long in this place — this Memphis we’re in now. They’ve seen a whole lot of water flow under that bridge downtown.”
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February 2023
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Echols: ‘I know that peace that they’re talking about’ at Asbury University
“I’ve experienced all of that, and Scripture backs those descriptions as by-products of walking with Jesus. Once you’ve seen stuff like that, it’s hard to keep it to yourself. It’s kinda like this: When you have tasted Pancho’s cheese dip, you can’t not tell other people about it when they come to our city.”
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Echols: The world waits
“One morning, not too far off, we will wake up, we will go outside, and we will discover that while we were sleeping, something that looks an awful lot like mercy has visited our natural world.”
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Echols: A letter to the men of Memphis
“Our lives have been stolen from us. Even the biggest, baddest, most intimidating woman you know is looking over her shoulder at every turn.”
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Echols: Memphians who are working to ‘push back the dark’
“With the minutes and hours and days they are given — in big and small ways — these otherwise ordinary folks are pushing back the dark by trumpeting hope to the world around them.”
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Echols: ‘Even nature is wondering how this will all play out’
“The natural world around us is not just the backdrop of our lives. It’s a very real character in our story – one that has been around much longer than we have. It’s worth paying some attention to it, even now, when everything looks so bleak.”
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January 2023
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Echols: A song for a city swimming in pain and anxiety
“Memphis, I cannot write in this space what I wish I could, which is a song that cries for you and with you and through you. But instead, I offer something better.”
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Echols: How shadow of crime impacts everything
“It shouldn’t be surprising that my own health seems to mirror the health of the city in which I live. The more crime seems to plague us, the more anxiety impacts my body and mind.”
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Candace Echols on writing about herself, her family and her faith
Candace Echols talks about the importance — and the challenges — of writing about faith in her weekly column for The Daily Memphian.
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December 2022
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Echols: The love between siblings at Christmas
“Brothers and sisters are not impressed by our accolades and titles, but they love that we hold their histories just as they hold ours. And we still like to connect on Christmas.”
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Echols: ‘I look to Hollywood to remind me of the power’
“I believe this old Christmas story is true for lots of reasons. But when I’m in a pinch and can’t think of any of those, I look to Hollywood to remind me of the power in the name that’s behind everything good in my life.”
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