Echols: ‘This past year has been a test for my faith’
Candace Echols
Candace Echols is a Midtown resident, wife, and mother of five. A regular contributor to The Daily Memphian, she is a freelance writer who also recently published her first book, the children’s book “Josephine and the Quarantine.”
“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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