Echols: Memphis City Seminary is ‘bridging the gap’
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.”
“In Memphis, there is so much that’s hard to hear. But this —this is something really, really good that’s happening in our city.”
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