Leslie Williams
Leslie Williams is an author at Religion News Service.
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NEWS FEATURE: New Orleans priestess bringing voodoo to Russia
By Leslie Williams — September 9, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service NEW ORLEANS _ At the close of 1998, a mermaid appeared in a dream of Miriam Chamani, the priestess of the Voodoo Spiritual Temple here. The mermaid told the priestess to be prepared for a long journey.”She said she would return,”Chamani said.”And she did, in early 1999.” In the next […]
COMMENTARY: Struggling with the octopus commandment: forgiveness
By Leslie Williams — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service (Leslie Williams is a professor of literature and author of”Night Wrestling”(Word).) UNDATED _ March 29, 1992. A Sunday supper of beans and cornbread. A novel left open on the couch. Suddenly, two young men shoulder their way through the front door. With a tire iron and a cedar post, they […]
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