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Mountainous inspiration from a pint-sized place

By Candace Echols In one sentence—that’s all she could fit between two sobs—my little girl melted a lifetime of struggle into just a few words. …

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The Keys to a Better Life

Chapter16 Community April 9, 2021 No Comments Booker T Washington Chapter16 Chris Moody Jim Crow South Paul Perdue Rosenwald Schools

Photographer Andrew Feiler documents the Rosenwald Schools of the Jim Crow South By Chris Moody, for Chapter16.org While researching his book, A Better Life for Their…

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Turning Back Evil

Chapter16 Community April 9, 2021 No Comments Chapter16 Michael Ray Taylor Sidney Thompson

Hell on the Border continues the true story of a larger-than-life lawman By Michael Ray Taylor, for Chapter16.org In Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves, Sidney Thompson…

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A Christian Responds to an Atheist on Good Friday

Candace Echols April 2, 2021 No Comments Candace Echols Easter Faith Yellow Chair ChronEchols

By Candace Echols It’s Easter weekend, and I’m a Christian. Typing that statement still fills me with angst. Not because of Christ, no, but because of…

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Green Thumb, Blue Heart

Ken Billett April 2, 2021 No Comments Flowers Gardening Ken Billett Spring

By Ken Billett Over the years, gardening has grown into an obsession. Forgive the pun. But what started as seasonal maintenance—replanting and mulching flower beds…

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The Gray Man goes to Berlin, and the movies

Chapter16 Community April 1, 2021 No Comments Chapter16 Mark Greaney Peggy Burch

The 10th thriller in the Gray Man series follows news of a Netflix film By Peggy Burch, for Chapter16.org Mark Greaney’s invincible assassin Court Gentry…

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The Blood Was There All Along

Chapter16 Community March 26, 2021 No Comments Chapter16 Civil Rights Movement Francis X Walter Tina Chambers

A white priest’s experience of the civil rights movement in Alabama By Tina Chambers, for Chapter16.org “Strange the crevasses racial superiority sinks into — hiding…

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Calling Evangelicals to Account

Chapter16 Community March 26, 2021 No Comments Anthea Butler Chapter16 David Dark Racism

Anthea Butler speaks with prophetic candor in White Evangelical Racism By David Dark, for Chapter16.org When religion and politics, the twin abstractions, seem to come at…