Echols: Words that aren’t the uninhabited talk of AI

By , Special to The Daily Memphian Updated: August 24, 2025 4:00 AM CT | Published: August 24, 2025 4:00 AM CT
Candace Echols
Special to The Daily Memphian

Candace Echols

Candace Echols writes whatever she notices as she goes about her daily life. Living that way has landed her bylines in National Geographic, Garden and Gun, The Gospel Coalition, Southern Living, golf.com, Cowboys and Indians, Common Good, Risen Motherhood, and others. Someday, she hopes to have a writing cottage in Oxford, England or Oxford, Mississippi; either will be just fine. Candace and her husband live with their children in Midtown Memphis.

“While AI can talk about God, it cannot speak about experiencing him. It can offer no first-person perspective on what God is like in the euphoria of love or in the depths of grief.”

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