by mcl | Nov 1, 2018 | Columns, Healthy Living
By Lisa Owens Tell them ‘thank you’! In this Thanksgiving and Christmas season, we often use words like thankful, grateful, generous, giving and “in the spirit of the holidays.” In our minds, we paint mental pictures of what those words...
by mcl | Nov 1, 2018 | Columns, Let's Talk It Over, Relationships
By Tom Washburn What we can learn from a Samaritan leper A man was standing in the post office working through his mail when an older fellow approached him with a postcard in his hand. The older gentleman said, “Son, I need your help…Would you...
by mcl | Nov 1, 2018 | Columns, Editor's Letter
Road trips, Goo Goo Clusters and gratitude As I write this, I’ve just returned from a concert in Nashville. I’m so grateful I got to go. It was one of those shows where the voice, lyrics and music combine to create more than the sum of their parts —...
by mcl | Nov 1, 2018 | Columns, Covers, Recent Cover Stories
Carla & Larry Nicks Thankful for each other It was a sunny fall afternoon in 1979 when Larry Nicks and some buddies walked into the Kmart on Highway 80 in Jackson to look for a car part. What Larry found was something much more precious: Carla...
by mcl | Oct 4, 2018 | Columns, Lagniappe, Lifestyle
A ‘Generation Next’ mindset Mission Mississippi has been active for 25 years now – and they want to make sure that number keeps going up. That’s why the organization has adopted a “Generation Next” mindset, said Executive Director Neddie Winters. ...
by mcl | Oct 4, 2018 | Columns, Community Outreach, Lifestyle
MISSION MISSISSIPPI Reconciliation reaches far beyond metro Jackson Mission Mississippi has chapters all over the state, each of them with stories of people coming together across racial and denominational lines for the glory of God. ...
