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.”
Topic: Candace Echols
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April 2023
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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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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.”
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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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