by MS Christian Living | Jan 1, 2025 | Columns, Community Outreach, Inspiration
By Laura Knight “What if I shared my secret? How would they react? I have carefully hidden this secret, but I am continually reminded of it. Memories of the abortion I had as a college student keep emerging from the furthest recesses of my mind. Yesterday, I saw a...
by MS Christian Living | Dec 12, 2024 | Columns, This Is My Story
By Sara Bannerman I pick up a string of garland and read the yellow tag attached to it. “East entrance to living room.” The cursive is a bit squiggly, like a ripple in water. Mom insists it wasn’t a stroke that weakened her writing hand and created a very slight droop...
by MS Christian Living | Nov 30, 2024 | Columns, Inspiration, This Is My Story
By Kendall Smith To be a “good Southern Baptist” in the ’70s and ’80s required several basic behaviors in addition to genuine faith in Jesus Christ: Attendance at Sunday school, morning worship, Training Union, and evening worship, and playing on a church league...
by MS Christian Living | Nov 30, 2024 | Columns, Community Outreach, Inspiration
Submitted by St. Dominic’s Since 1996, St. Dominic’s has operated a community health clinic at 1100 W. Capitol St. in Jackson, offering free primary care to low-income families and people experiencing homelessness. Located within the Stewpot Community Services...
by MS Christian Living | Nov 30, 2024 | Columns, Feature Story, Inspiration
By Katie Ginn When Bill and Becky Caldwell went to bed at their home in Little Rock on December 1, 1991, they had no idea that they’d be spending the next afternoon as hostages in their own attic. Around midday, escaped inmate Paul Jerome Spiers broke into the...
by MS Christian Living | Nov 30, 2024 | Columns, Inspiration, Outside In
By Chris Bates There is nothing like a painted dawn in the Mississippi Delta. On a recent hunting trip, I arrived just before sunrise and took in the quiet solitude as I sat against a large oak. Stars stretched across the sky in ways that we cannot see when under city...