Letter to the Editor: Thanks for Candace Echols’ columns on faith
“Ms. Echols’ perspective may be evoking these sorts of questions, causing readers to rethink their assumptions, perhaps rethink the commonly assumed absence of God.”
Topic: Candace Echols
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December 2022
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Echols: ‘Nothing but a breath between us and the telephone poles’
“It wasn’t until I reached adulthood that I realized nothing that can be wrapped will fully satisfy. And if the stuff in the boxes — the stuff I flew up and down Poplar looking so frantically for — won’t satisfy, what will?”
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Echols: A Christmas column that isn’t tinsel and twinkles
“Today’s column is about the ways the evil of this world threatens humanity, both through our own choices, and through the spiritual forces in and at work around us. Which is exactly the reason for Christmas.”
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November 2022
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Echols: Thanksgiving traditions for the modern family
“The modern American — me, included — can barely sit through a wheat-harvesting description without checking her phone for something a tad more interesting.”
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Echols: ‘My Magnificent Lover’
“Real, gut-level laughter is a gift from God; laughter was his design. It’s also a wildly underestimated instrument of light for both children and adults. It has the power to cut through some dark moments, and we need tools that have power like that right now.”
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Echols: ‘Don’t grow up. It’s a trap.’
“It makes sense of a mother’s tears on the first day of kindergarten or at high school graduation. It recognizes a college graduate’s homesickness for her roommates. It validates a father’s emotion as he gives his daughter away on her wedding day.”
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October 2022
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Echols: Finding what we believe down deep — where it matters
“There’s no person who is completely free of faith. Even atheism requires a hearty and confident step of conviction. And when you find you’re locked in a teeny, tiny closet, even the smallest step matters.”
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Echols: Memories of childhood mysteries better left undisturbed
The Enchanted Forest, Adventure River, The Wonder Bread factory and all the things that “brought me memories filled with laughter and delight.”
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Echols: If I left Memphis, I’d be trading one kind of venom for another
“There is a unique splendor here that is unique in comparison with any place I’ve ever been. It’s found in the bare and beautiful faces of so many folks who make up this space, and in the way they live in community with one another — even when it’s hard.”
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Echols: Seeing the scar and the beauty all at the same time
After their seemingly perfect life crumbled, my parents — who run Jones Orchard — bounced back because of a tested and proven walk with God.
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