Ghosts aren’t just people who were once alive. They can also be entire towns – thriving communities that now only exist in memory, historical documents or the remnants of old buildings. We learned more about some of these communities from Lisa Russell, author of the book, “Lost Towns of North Georgia.”

When a person dies, a part of them can remain with the living. That’s the case for one spirit in Savannah at the Sorrel Weed House Museum. We get a ghost story from the museum’s operation manager, Nicholas Wood.

Two Baptist churches in Macon - one black and one white – are located right next to each other. Both churches have been segregated since the end of the Civil War. Now, the leaders of the church want to bridge the racial divide. They have led joint discussions with church members on racism in the history of the United States and their congregations. We spoke with the two church leaders – First Baptist Church of Christ Reverend Scott Dickison and First Baptist Church Reverend James Goolsby - about moving their congregations to reconciliation.

Tybee Island reverend Michael Elliott’s congregation doesn’t gather in pews on Sunday mornings. Instead, it listen to his sermons from bar stools most any night of the week. Elliott says his decision to minister in a bar rather than a traditional house of worship gives more people the opportunity to practice their faith and gives him the chance to reach more people. Elliot and one of his congregants, David Cahill, joined us to talk about finding faith in unusual spaces.

Sjohnna McCray is an instructor at Savannah State University who won the Walt Whitman Award for emerging poets in 2015. We talked with him about "Rapture," his collection of poems chronicling the relationship between his father and mother, who was a "comfort woman" in South Korea.

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