Salvation South editor Chuck Reece comments on Southern culture and values in a weekly segment that airs Fridays on GPB Radio. Salvation South is an online magazine inspired by hope, healing and — most importantly — the desire to create a place on the web and a community of people where civil conversation can happen. We celebrate the culture of the South, and discuss issues of importance to our region.
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Signup to Generate a PitchSalvation South editor Chuck Reece comments on Southern culture and values in a weekly segment that airs Fridays on GPB Radio. Salvation South is an online magazine inspired by hope, healing and, most importantly, the desire to create a place on the web and a community of people where civil conversation can happen.
Recent episodes include "Fifty Years Since Plains" (27 October 2026, 4 minutes), "These Hands: Lee Bains and 'Work Lunch'" (20 October 2026, 41 minutes), and "Deluxe: They Had a Choice" (29 September 2026, 37 minutes).
Salvation South publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 17 minutes across 157 episodes.
Booking probability for Salvation South is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Salvation South requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Salvation South's contact route on record: verified email.
Salvation South is an education podcast with 157 episodes published.
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Fifty years ago next week, Georgia’s Jimmy Carter was elected president—the first man from the Deep South to win the White House since Zachary Taylor in 1848. Salvation South magazine editor Chuck Reece says the...
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On this episode, Lee Bains, the Birmingham-born songwriter who leads the Glory Fires, reads from Work Lunch , his first poetry collection, just out from Hub City Press. At his kitchen table in Atlanta, he tells...
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In the fall of 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court ran out of patience. Fifteen years after Brown v. Board of Education , it ordered Southern school districts to end segregation "at once." Many white families answered by...
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Wendell Berry spent a lifetime writing about land, work, community, and the moral obligations we inherit from the places that shape us. In this commentary, Salvation South editor Chuck Reece remembers a childhood...
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This weekend, better than three million Southerners will sit in the bleachers at a football game. Chuck Reece, who memorized the Gilmer High School lineup before he could name three Beatitudes, argues these gatherings...
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Dolly Parton’s death leaves a world of listeners grieving not only a singular singer and songwriter, but also a woman whose generosity, humor, and acceptance made people feel seen. Chuck Reece remembers the night he and...
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Salvation South Deluxe host Chuck Reece sits down with Jim Auchmutey, author of Smokelore , to argue about barbecue sauce—and to trace the deeper, harder story of who really built the tradition Southerners...
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The Sacred Harp, the shape-note hymnal published in west Georgia in 1844, got its first revision in thirty-four years—and more than seven hundred singers showed up in Atlanta to christen it. Chuck Reece explains why a...
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In the same storage bin as his parents' World War II letters, Chuck Reece found the scrapbook his mother ordered before he started the first grade in 1967. As thousands of Southern children head into first grade, he...
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Erika Council makes the only biscuit in the Michelin Guide — three years running. But behind that improbable honor stand two grandmothers, a church soup kitchen in Goldsboro, North Carolina, and a question her mother...
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What does a cartoon sailor have to do with Pride Month? More than you might think. In this commentary, Chuck Reece traces a line from Popeye’s stubborn self-acceptance to the urgent realities facing LGBTQ+ young people...
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Chuck Reece previews a new Salvation South Deluxe episode on the Jewish South. From Savannah and Charleston to the wider region, the episode—with historians Marcie Cohen Ferris and Shari Rabin—traces Jewish Southern...
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They were in Charleston before the colony had a charter. They wore Confederate gray. They marched with mobs that overturned Black governments after the war. They were also lynched in Marietta and bombed in Atlanta and...
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What happens when the place that made you who you are vanishes completely? Writer Tracy Thompson and poet Annie Woodford share stories of Southern landscapes lost to progress——and the particular grief called...
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Since the death of Atlanta media mogul Ted Turner, outlets all over the world have broadcast accounts of his giant ambitions, his creation of the twenty-four-hour news cycle in which we all live today, and his work as...
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On Sunday, families all over Georgia will celebrate Mother’s Day, taking moms out to brunch and buying presents. Others, whose mothers are no longer with them, will sift through memories. The mother of Salvation...
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During this pledge week, GPB has been asking our listeners, “Who has the best biscuits in Georgia?” Hundreds of you have put your answers on social media, but we haven’t seen anything close to a general agreement on the...
Salvation South Deluxe sits down with Beth Ann Fennelly—poet, novelist, and inventor of the “micro‑memoir”—to talk about her latest book, ‘The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs.’ In a conversation that ranges from...
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This is the time of year in Georgia when, after every rain, the puddles left behind are yellow, thanks to an abundance of pine pollen. Some people sneeze at the pollen, some people curse at the pollen, and some people...
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A city‑hall slush fund, a dissenting vote, and a rainy weekend in Tallahassee accidentally created Word of South, the South’s most unlikely laboratory for music and literature. In this episode of Salvation South Deluxe...
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