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To be nice, or to be kind?

By Annalissa Cochran What does it mean to be nice? What does it mean to be kind? These two words are often used interchangeably, but they can have two different meanings and expressions that are...
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Changing our focus in order to overcome addiction

By Christina Dent When Dr. Bruce Alexander arrived at an addiction clinic on his first day of work as a psychology student in the 1970s, he was nervous because he had grown up hearing that people...
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Protecting your child from sexual grooming at church

By Kim Thomas, LMSW Sexual grooming is defined as someone (offender) building trust with a child and their family for the purpose of manipulating the child into being abused. The approach is usually...
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Protecting your recovery journey during the holidays

By Brianna Rodgers, LMFT, ASAT, EMDR, CTT As we approach the holiday season, here are some ways you and your family can prepare to stay on the path to recovery. Potential triggers Family gatherings:...
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LET’S TALK IT OVER – Suicide: What nobody wants to talk about

By Dr. Siyuan Chen Kennedy   She’s 35. She is a wife, a mom, and PTO president. Her life looks incredible to everyone, but when things are quiet, her mind races. She isn’t sure she wants to...
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LET’S TALK IT OVER — How to practice mindfulness

Submitted by BOB PREHN, PHD, and SONYA SUMMERLIN, LFMT          This Mental Health Awareness Month, experts from St. Dominic’s Behavioral Health Services offer some practical steps to help...
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LET’S TALK IT OVER — How to tell if your child needs counseling

By JENNIFER DRYDEN, LPC, LMFT          Anxiety has become a childhood epidemic in our country. Even before the pandemic, anxiety was becoming more common among children and adolescents,...
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LET’S TALK IT OVER — An open letter to the heart of men

By BRANDEN HENRY An open letter to the heart of men   When was the last time you felt alive? And I mean really ALIVE. Not just the excitement of buying a new thing, watching a great game or...
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LET’S TALK IT OVER — How to fight for your child in a cancel culture

By DR. CATHERINE P. PHILLIPPI How to fight for your child in a cancel culture        How many followers do I have? Every grade I make is critical. What if I don’t make the team? Why am I so...
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LET’S TALK IT OVER — New hope for addiction prevention and recovery

by ADRIAN HICKMON, PHD     New hope for addiction prevention and recovery        All families are hit with challenges, crises and tragedies, and those involving our...
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Cindy Townsend: On life, ‘lemons’ and the Lord

By KATIE EUBANKS          Cindy Townsend picks up a plastic lemon and turns it over in her hands. At first glance, it’s just a lemon — one of many she’s used to adorn her kitchen table, where we now sit with her husband, as well as other surfaces in their...
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Jackson Leadership Foundation Supporting leaders, transforming lives

  Katie Eubanks: What is Jackson Leadership Foundation?      Samuel Bolen: We are a ministry to ministries. Our desire is to work with ministry leaders in Jackson to help (them) grow as leaders, and grow their ministries to the scale of the vision that God has...
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Michael and Julie Estes Finding a ministry home at Ridgecrest

By KATIE EUBANKS   Michael and Julie Estes Finding a ministry home at Ridgecrest        In 1998, Michael Estes finally worked up the nerve to ask out Julie Stone.  They’d both grown up in Clinton, and probably met on a Clinton High School...
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Shower Power — Jackson organization empowers people experiencing homelessness

By KATIE EUBANKS   Shower Power Jackson organization empowers people experiencing homelessness        Lying in the shade, a young man named DJ spreads his Bible on top of his face and reaches his arms up to the sky. He doesn’t take medication...
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Anne Graham Lotz talks cancer, loss, and seeing God’s blessings

By KATIE EUBANKS     Anne Graham Lotz talks cancer, loss, and seeing God’s blessings        In early 2019, Anne Graham Lotz — daughter of the Rev. Billy Graham — was scheduled to speak to the women at First Baptist Jackson. A brutal round...
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Sean Milner: He grew up at a children’s home — and now he runs it

By KATIE EUBANKS   Sean Milner He grew up at a children’s home — and now he runs it        Sean Milner remembers the gunshot from when Oma wounded herself in the shoulder.      “(My siblings and I) ran out on the back porch and...
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FEATURE — But God Ministries finds a home in the Delta

    JONESTOWN — Linda McGrew thought she had grown up poor — and she had. But then she visited some homes in Quitman County.   “I (was) inspecting the units that we were to rehab (at a nonprofit). You could look through the ceiling and see outdoors. You...
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SPECIAL FEATURE — Doing diversity in the local church

By Katie Eubanks   Doing diversity in the local church     Sunday morning is still the most segregated hour of the week, but not if these churches have anything to do with it. In the greater Jackson area, leaders at several churches — from a megachurch...
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DYNAMIC DADS—Stories of Fatherhood

Introduction and Questions by Marilyn Tinnin Dynamic Dads   We have looked for a few wise men here in Mississippi Christian Living’s Annual Man Issue. We have loved gathering these stories and getting these guys to put words to the heart issues of priorities,...
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MILLENNIAL MOMS—Stories of Motherhood

  Fenley Akers Davis Age 28 Married to Price Davis (5 years) Mother to daughter Paschal (Newborn)   Work Background: Administrative Assistant to Governor Phil Bryant; Account Executive WLBT News Channel 3; Co-Founder + Director of Development Club Sally;...
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AUTHOR Q&A — 1 pilgrim, many interruptions

by | May 4, 2022

By KATIE EUBANKS          Author and Jackson native Susan Cushman will release her eighth book, “Pilgrim Interrupted” — a memoir in the form of an essay collection encompassing faith, mental health and more — on June 7. She will be at Lemuria Books in Jackson for a signing on June 11....