IV Biscuits’ Enunciation: Mama Keeps the Rules

BISCUITS IV: ENUNCIATION Audrey Ward Illustration by Elizabeth Whybrow Leeds A Biscuits’ Lesson on Enunciation from young Audrey, the voice of Hidden Biscuits: Mama Keeps the Rules. “Down a liberry’s wher a foun it…” Now don’t those words look as if they’d Read More...

III Biscuits for Fred Brenning Craddock: 30 April 1928 – 6 March 2015

III BISCUITS FOR FRED BRENNING CRADDOCK: 30 APRIL 1928 to 6 MARCH 2015 Audrey Ward He saw through our pretensions, compelled us to go deeper, and used small words and stories to deliver stunning revelations. Dr. Fred Craddock, born on a farm in East Tennessee, came to inhabit the world Read More...

ll Biscuits to Live By

BISCUITS TO LIVE BY Audrey Ward As I explored in Hidden Biscuits…tales of Deep South revivals told by heart, many of the Appalachian people of the Deep South “got free” in the Spirit when they were in the church and gave themselves over to a language of their heaven. As a child in their Read More...

I. BISCUITS TO GROW ON

Audrey Ward My memoir (Hidden Biscuits…tales of Deep South revivals told by heart) tells of a late 1940’s—50’s childhood traveling in an 18’ trailer through the Deep South. Running water? No, unless you count the creek that ran alongside some red dirt roads. Electricity? We did park Read More...