Wonder and gratitude: The faith and fiction of Deborah Johnson

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For another, she came to Mississippi after living for 18 years in Italy, working part of that time at Vatican Radio. “It is essentially about a murder of a Black person,” Johnson explained in a phone interview with America in July. “I liked it so much that I ended up staying for 18 years.” Perhaps hearing a muse within, Johnson wanted to study Latin. And I did!”“Aside from the BBC, Vatican Radio was the most listened-to radio of any sort of media in English-speaking Africa,” she recalled. Credit: Olivia Plant, Olivia Cornelia PhotographyShe offered the example of child soldiers, which Vatican Radio covered extensively.