That pain was sickening. The anticipation of his reaction fanned the flames of panic within her as she prepared to tell her soon-to-be-husband something that he, surely, would not believe. Something he would...
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My two-year-old niece, SHA, crawled on the off-white sofa and snuggled next to me. She placed a stuffed lamb in my lap and tickled my chin with her Pebbles Flintstone ponytail. It was not this...
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When I was in college, I had the privilege of spending a couple of weeks in Mexico, on a mission trip, as a member of something called a “youth choir”. A couple of pre-emptive answers to your inevitable...
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When I was a freshman at Vanderbilt University, Bon Jovi’s song, “It’s My Life,” was my anthem. I’d play the song on repeat in my dorm room, tossing my curly hair with the...
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I love the South. I love Dogwood trees in March, and couples who drive just under 7 miles an hour in order to view them in mind-numbing detail from the comfortable confines of their mauve, oversized,...
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Augustine was born in Missouri to Peter Paul Tolton and Martha Jane Chisley in the year 1854.They were slaves of a white man named Stephen Elliott who suffered under the delusion that men, women, and children...
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My friend, Adam, and I were catching up over lunch in Onward, Mississippi, a speck on the map between Vicksburg and Rolling Fork. People usually journey to this delta community for two reasons. One is to see...
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Guilt by association is a peculiar thing because it criminalizes not an action but a state of being. In the days that Diocletian persecuted and pursued the Church at every opportunity and every turn, Zoe of...
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