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Christian Leaders of the Future 2023

For 15 years now, MCL has partnered with Belhaven University to honor outstanding Mississippi high-school seniors who show Christian character and academic excellence. Applications are...

Dr. Alyssa Killebrew — ‘SEK’ and you will find

By KATIE EUBANKS From September 2020 to December 2021, Ridgeland psychologist Dr. Alyssa Killebrew lost her best friend, her unborn daughter, and her husband. While still...

Mike and Amanda Clement — Their road to marriage, Oxford, and Omaha

By KATIE EUBANKS God doesn’t necessarily care who wins baseball games. That’s a startling statement coming from Ole Miss Baseball Hitting Coach Mike Clement — who helped propel...

MCL’s Christian Leaders of the Year

By KATIE EUBANKS; Photos by STEGALL IMAGERY For the fourth year in a row, MCL has taken nominations for Christian Leaders of the Year. This year the five selected leaders met together for a...

Dr. Cathie Phillippi — No longer an outsider

By KATIE EUBANKS Dr. Cathie Phillippi is a married, churchgoing doctor with three kids. But she isn’t perfect. “I think people see this put-together person … with all the things,”...

Clint and Terri Herring — Pursuing the Savior who pursued them first

By KATIE EUBANKS Clint Herring’s parents fell in love in Selma, Alabama. Clint’s father was “an awesome attorney” who’d attended law school at The University of Mississippi and served in...

4 presidents of Christ-centered colleges on faith, education and community

By KATIE EUBANKS Last month, MCL Editor Katie Eubanks interviewed four presidents of Christ-centered institutions of higher learning in Mississippi. Two themes emerged from these...

Erasing the stigma — 3 therapists talk faith and mental health

By KATIE EUBANKS MCL Editor Katie Eubanks recently sat down with three licensed professional counselors (LPCs) who love Jesus and want to help people live by His design through mental health —...

20 years of Mississippi Christian Living!

By KATIE EUBANKS and MARILYN TINNIN Twenty years ago this month, Marilyn Tinnin launched a little monthly newsprint magazine called Jackson Christian Family. Today that publication has...

Roosevelt and Shay Greenwood — Outlasting stage 4 cancer and other storms

By KATIE EUBANKS Roosevelt and Shay Greenwood don’t do anything halfway. If they experience a storm (literal or otherwise), it’s a roof-ripping monster. If they experience a victory, it’s...

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Dr. Alyssa Killebrew — ‘SEK’ and you will find

by MS Christian Living

By KATIE EUBANKS From September 2020 to December 2021, Ridgeland psychologist...

MCL’s Christian Leaders of the Year

by MS Christian Living

By KATIE EUBANKS; Photos by STEGALL IMAGERY For the fourth year in a row, MCL has taken...

Dr. Cathie Phillippi — No longer an outsider

by MS Christian Living

By KATIE EUBANKS Dr. Cathie Phillippi is a married, churchgoing doctor with three...

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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;...

2018 Christian Leaders of the Future Event

2018 Christian Leaders of the Future Event Mississippi Christian Living, in partnership with Belhaven University, honored our tenth class of Christian Leaders of the Future at an afternoon event on Belhaven’s campus March 5. Two...

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...