Deborah Grow

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“Growing Up Baptist” by Deborah Grow

Submitted to Contest #80

Being good Southern Baptists, we went to church three times a week, twice on Sundays and once on Wednesdays just for extra heavenly brownie points. I don’t remember ever missin’ church on a Sunday and rarely on Wednesday’s brush-up session.  Everyone I knew went to church. I don’t believe I knew a single child who didn’t belong to some kind of church. In Alabama, that is just the way things were. Most everyone was Baptist, either the white Baptists, like us, or the black Baptists. I never realized the difference and how much more I en...

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Author, singer/songwriter, and educator living in Japan