by MS Christian Living | Jun 28, 2020 | Columns, Lifestyle, Special Feature
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...
by MS Christian Living | Jun 1, 2020 | Columns, Lifestyle, Special Feature
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...
by mcl | Jan 1, 2020 | Columns, Lifestyle, Special Feature, Special Feature
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...
by mcl | Aug 4, 2019 | Columns, Inspiration, Special Feature
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...
by mcl | Dec 1, 2018 | Columns, Special Feature
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...
by mcl | Oct 1, 2018 | Columns, Lifestyle, Special Feature
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...
