Tag: Deborah Lewis
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Holding a Tin Cup with Mary Karr: A Belated Review of Sinners Welcome
I’ve sung the praises of Mary Karr on Heartlands before, recognizing a seminal moment in my own development as a writer and human being that was spurred by her 2008 presentation at the Festival of Faith & Writing. But my very first introduction to Karr, the memoirist and poet, was a book that was given…
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Why You Need to Know This Bitter Southerner: Heartlands Interviews Chuck Reece, Part 1 of 3
I was standing in a cemetery near Onancock, sweating in the mid-July heat, when Chuck Reece asked me how I got from radio journalism into ministry. I was supposed to be interviewing him, but Chuck Reece, even over the phone, is a master at sniffing out stories and he trained his curiosity on me before…
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