Sunday At this moment, Joshua Workman might be the most sought-after North Carolinian anywhere in the country. Hair spiked and gelled, sporting a pierced tongue and a nipple ring, he has been fielding so many party invitations that he has to run a spreadsheet program to keep track of his social calendar. The phone rings […]
Barry Yeoman
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Hurricanes
The crisis Byron Barrera is distracted. His mind, usually focused and clear, seems to drift in and out of conversation. There’s no smile on his face; the Winnie-the-Pooh paraphernalia and teddy-bear statuettes in his trailer seem to mock his mood. “Estoy preocupado,” he says. I’m worried. For almost a year, the pastor’s disciple at Loves […]
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Soul and Skin
Sometime this spring, when the weather gets warm, the members of Loves Creek Hispanic Baptist Mission will travel on foot to their new church on the outskirts of Siler City. They will gather downtown–these immigrants from Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Honduras and Colombia–at Tienda Gabriel, a former lunch-counter drugstore that now sells Latin CDs, dried […]
