Interview with Mace McGhee 1972-07-18

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Reverend Mace McGhee reflects on the history of the Holiness Church in Poarch, Alabama. He remembers how the Church came to own the land it stands on, given by a timber company first to an Episcopalian Church and then to the Holiness Church. He goes on to describe the Holiness religion and his family history. Previously Episcopalian, he left the Church and moved out of his parents’ home with his family, and later began to preach. He shares the emergence of several Holiness churches in the area, including the network to which his church belongs—the Free Holiness Church. He speaks on the theological differences of several different churches, and then discusses his disapproval of a fellow church member who engages in traditional Indian religious practices. The interview concludes with discussion of a land purchase.