Unpacking the Headcase
There are a couple of images I can’t get out of my head this week. More on that later. Meanwhile, thought you might find this article interesting. Scot McKnight is right, social justice is not...
View ArticleThe Healing: Q & A with Jonathan Odell
In Jonathan Odell’s newest release, THE HEALING, Mississippi plantation mistress Amanda Satterfield loses her daughter to cholera. Distraught, Amanda steals a newborn from one of her slaves and...
View ArticleDolly Pardon at Pine Mountain
Dolly Pardon joined us at The French Market in Pine Mountain and urged everyone to pick up a copy of MOTHER OF RAIN and THE STORYCATCHER.
View ArticleParachute Powell: A visit with a Modern-Day Zeb
While making an appearance at Litchfield Books in South Carolina, I had the opportunity to interview a World War II veteran. Powell was parachute infantryman during World War II. A job he volunteered...
View ArticleBook Giveaway: The Prayer Box
Speaking of coming across the prayers of the dead, have you read Lisa Wingate’s latest treasure “The Prayer Box”? “Tangled in strands of salt grass, treasures waited – a rosary, a bit of sea glass, a...
View ArticleMothers & Mental Illness
My childhood girlfriend was institutionalized following the birth of her first-born. Here she was, ten years later, in the third-trimester of her second pregnancy, talking out of her head again. We...
View ArticleHoly & Mesmerizing Fiction
The kindly looking fellow in the light blue shirt pulled me aside moments before my presentation at the library. Your book has made me do a lot of thinking, he said. Oh? I replied. Yes. About...
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