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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Wanda B. Campbell, author of Right Package Wrong Baggage

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Wanda B. Campbell, author of Right Package Wrong Baggage
(Urban Christian/ Kengsington)

For five years, Pamela Roberts has balanced the demands of being a single mother and a devoted Christian. She unselfishly places the needs of her son, Matthew, above her own. Although she tries to convince everyone that she’s happy with Jesus alone, Matthew handpicks the perfect present for her—a husband. Everything about the man her son chooses is perfect, except for his past.

Micah Stevenson is excited when he learns the son of the woman he has been praying about wants him to join their family permanently. Believing Pamela Roberts is his soul mate sent from God, Micah pursues her. Once he is certain of her love for him, Micah reveals his dark history, shaking the foundation of the once loving and stable relationship. Trust is broken as judgments and prejudices threaten to deny the couple’s destiny.

Will the man he used to be prevent Pamela from loving Micah for the man he is now?

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the idea and inspiration to write Right Package Wrong Baggage?

Wanda Campbell: Without giving away too much of the “baggage”, my main inspiration in writing this story were the prejudices and stereotypes I have witnessed Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Wanda B. Campbell, author of Right Package Wrong Baggage →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… William J. and Yolanda Powell, authors of Soul Food & Living Water

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Williams J. Powell and Yolanda Powell, author of Soul Food & Living Water
(Moody Publishing – Lift Every Voice)

Soul Food & Living Water is a potent scriptural oasis in the midst of the family desert and the daily drought. It’s creatively designed to strengthen Black parents and children where we are weak and lacking and provide us with what we need in both spiritual and practical ways.

Each chapter is a quick and easy read! The reading audience will identify with our real-life examples, laugh out-loud at our transparent stories and be built-up by practical aids…all flowing – from chapter to chapter – into your life like refreshing streams.

Overall, Soul Food & Living Water will help the Black family discover joyful paths back into the Presence of a Loving God – Who sees, cares and knows EXACTLY where we live! It’s a true manual for marriage and family – in the trenches where we live and work every day.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the idea and inspiration to write Soul Food & Living Water?

Williams J. Powell and Yolanda Powell: Our family lived the “ideas” of Soul Food & Living Water in the raw and discovered that what we had emerged from…job loss, Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… William J. and Yolanda Powell, authors of Soul Food & Living Water →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Buzzy Jackson, author of Shaking the Family Tree

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Buzzy Jackson, author of Shaking the Family Tree
(Touchstone/Fireside)

Historian Buzzy Jackson’s SHAKING THE FAMILY TREE: Blue Bloods, Black Sheep, and Other Obsessions of an Accidental Genealogist (Simon & Schuster: July 2010) offers a lively tour through the strange and fascinating subculture of genealogy buffs – a quest that begins with questions about her own family tree, then takes her from the archives of the Mormon church, to a dedicated “genealogy cruise” and even into a lab for a DNA test — all to figure out why the pursuit of our past fascinates so many Americans.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the idea and inspiration to write Shaking the Family Tree?

Buzzy Jackson: I spent seven years getting a PhD in History from UC Berkeley and, during that time, students I taught often asked me why there weren’t more Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Buzzy Jackson, author of Shaking the Family Tree →