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Lee family celebrates 3 generations of MC memories

By Katie Ginn In a black-and-white photo taken in 1950, an 8-year-old boy in short pants smirks at the camera, chin jutted out with pride like he owns the world. Perhaps he does, in a way, as the...

5 Mississippi artists talk faith and creativity

By Katie Ginn MCL Editor Katie Ginn recently interviewed five Mississippi artists whose walk with Christ informs their work onstage and in the studio. They shared about their early (and current)...

Come on over: At home with Paul and Ann Lowrey Forster

By Katie Ginn Tucked around the corner from the tail end of a major thoroughfare, the Forster home sits on a quiet street in northeast Jackson. But on the inside, the house is rarely quiet. Two...

Robert & Margaret Fortenberry: To Botswana and back

By Katie Ginn Sitting in their daughter’s living room in Clinton, Margaret Fortenberry wipes away tears as her husband, Robert, shares about one of the hardest things they’ve ever done: “Everything...

Rusty & Heather Bryant: The Redeemed Marriage

By Katie Ginn The day after Heather Bryant told Rusty, her husband of 15 years, that she’d had an affair, a couples’ counselor asked them, “What was the best year of your marriage?” With a bitter...

MCL’s 2026 Christian Leaders of the Future

For 18 years now, MCL has partnered with Belhaven University to honor outstanding Mississippi high-school seniors who show Christian character and academic excellence. Applications are reviewed by...

4 financial pros talk love, money, & stewardship

By Katie Ginn For this year’s Money & Stewardship Issue, MCL Editor Katie Ginn interviewed four financial professionals: husband-and-wife team Marray and TK Harris, and stepdad/stepdaughter Jeff...

Rebecca and Dalco Turner: Faith, family, and other Good Things

By Katie Ginn She was a junior at Southern Miss. He worked offshore. But on this night, they were both out on the town, at a place called Roper’s Rockin’ Country in Hattiesburg. The petite, spunky...

MCL’s 2025 Christian Leaders of the Year

By Katie Ginn Each year, MCL asks for nominations for Christian Leaders of the Year for our December cover story. This year’s honorees represent everything from a preschool choir to economic...

Adoption: The joy, the pain, and why it’s all worth it

By Katie Ginn In honor of National Adoption Awareness Month, we talked with four adoptive families from Mississippi. Their stories are all different, but they all present a picture of the gospel, in...

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7 lessons my parents taught me outside the classroom

By Katie Ginn Fun fact: Mississippi’s oldest institution of higher learning (Mississippi Christian...

Elvis Presley, faith, and art

By Katie Ginn My parents grew up on Elvis. Therefore, so did I. My mom had a dream about marrying...

Why spiritual growth is closer than you think

By Katie Ginn This morning, I tried to think of what the Lord had been teaching me lately, so I...

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Dr. Tim and Jenn Chen: Faith, fun, and 5 precious kiddos

by MS Christian Living

By Katie Ginn In 2023, the average American household included 1.94 children under the age of 18,...

Leadership, love, and letting go 4 men we love share their God stories

by MS Christian Living

By KATIE EUBANKS MCL Editor Katie Eubanks Ginn recently sat down with four men from...

Cindy Townsend: On life, ‘lemons’ and the Lord

by MS Christian Living

By KATIE EUBANKS Cindy Townsend picks up a plastic lemon and turns it over in...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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;...

AUTHOR Q&A — 1 pilgrim, many interruptions

by MS Christian Living | 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....

AUTHOR Q&A — Brandon resident’s book can help you win financially

by MS Christian Living | Oct 30, 2021

By ANNA CLAIRE O’CAIN Bassfield native Neal Broome is a nearly 20-year resident of Brandon, a proud husband and father, a deacon and stewardship leader at his church, and has developed a career as an equity partner at Power Financial Group, LLC. Now he has released his first...

AUTHOR Q&A — Jackson native’s book can help you learn a new song

by MS Christian Living | Apr 30, 2021

Jackson native’s book can help you learn a new song Ginny Owens was born and raised in Jackson, attended Murrah High School and the Mississippi School for the Blind, and has developed a career as an award-winning Christian musical artist and speaker. Now she’s written her first book...

‘Surviving Hitler, Evading Stalin’: Mildred’s story by Sherye S. Green

by MS Christian Living | Nov 30, 2020

By KATIE EUBANKS ‘Surviving Hitler, Evading Stalin’: Mildred’s story MCL’s own “Middle Ages” columnist, Sherye S. Green, has co-written a new book called “Surviving Hitler, Evading Stalin: One Woman’s Remarkable Escape From Nazi Germany.” Editor Katie Eubanks chatted with Sherye...