About the Contributor(s):
Steven Darsey has served Atlantas Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church as director of music since 1986. Holding the Doctor of Musical Arts from the Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music, he has served several churches of different denominations and Emorys Candler School of Theology. He articulates his commitment to worship through writing, conducting, composing, and serving as founding artistic director of the worship arts organization Meridian Herald.

Every night of revival--1945 to 1956--the Evangelist and his family carried the mostly Appalachian folks to whom they ministered on up to a higher place. Worn down bodies in from the heat and dust of a sharecroppers cotton fields or unventilated rooms of the mill barely made it over to the local Pentecostal church house, to the shelter of a raised-up tent or bush arbor. But by the time they sang, shouted, and prayed in response to the Skondeen familys music and preaching, something shifted.

In Hidden Biscuits, Audrey Skondeen Wards memories come alive by way of her writing, as words, songs,...