by mcl | Sep 1, 2015 | Columns, Inspiration, Living My Call
By Marilyn Tinnin Keith Tonkel arrived at Wells United Methodist Church in 1969 in the thick of the racial conflict sweeping across the South. Located on Bailey Avenue in a community that had once been a stable blue-collar neighborhood, at least 400 members had...
by mcl | Aug 9, 2015 | Columns, Inspiration, Living My Call
By MARILYN TINNIN Dolphus and Rosie Weary grew up in the backwoods of Mississippi in rural Simpson County. Their story of leaving Mississippi for Los Angeles Bible College in the late 1960s is told in Dolphus’ first book, I Ain’t Comin’ Back. Appropriately...
by mcl | Jun 1, 2015 | Columns, Inspiration, Living My Call
By Catie Stewart Jody Schmelzer had spent over nine years investing in his local church in Madison, Mississippi, when God called him to uproot his life completely. For him and his family, that meant abandoning their comfortable home and moving 150 miles away to do...
by mcl | May 6, 2015 | Columns, Inspiration, Living My Call
By Sophie Hudson a.k.a Boo Mama I guess, if I’m honest, I thought that my friendships would hit their peak in college. And really, it would have been fine if they had. Within just a few weeks of arriving at State my freshman year, I felt like I’d known my new friends...
by mcl | Apr 7, 2015 | Columns, Inspiration, Living My Call
By Marilyn Tinnin Damien Cavicchi is passionate about food, but despite his impressive resume including a five- year stint as the corporate executive chef at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, he is no food snob—not by a long shot. The Regional Director of Culinary...
by mcl | Mar 4, 2015 | Columns, Inspiration, Living My Call
By David Sprayberry With low approval ratings and distrust among many in the public, the political landscape can sometimes seem more like a desert than fertile land. Americans do not paint a good picture of their public servants. In the new national Reason Rupe Poll,...
