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MCL’s 2023 Christian Leaders of the Year

By Katie Eubanks Ginn For the fifth year in a row, MCL has asked for nominations for Christian Leaders of the Year, servant leaders in Mississippi who embody the character of Christ. Nominations...

Cover Story – Ben and Cammie Derrick’s ‘obedience whirlwind’

By Katie Eubanks Ginn From pastoring to counseling — and protecting their marriage. Thirteen years ago, metro Jackson native Ben Derrick had a calling to the ministry, a seminary degree, and years...

Cover Story: Go Tell crusade aims for 1,000 salvations

By Katie Eubanks Ginn (From left) Joel and Meredith Travelstead, Brandon Mayor Butch Lee, Joy Bradford, Ryan Wade, Go Tell leader Rick Gage, Percy Thornton, Carolyn Boteler, Art Jones Rick Gage...

COVER STORY – Osprey helps kids have social lives without social media

By Katie Eubanks Ginn Let one fact be clear: Catherine and Taylor Sledge are not anti-social media. They’ve been using it since the early 2000s, when Taylor’s screen name on AOL Instant...

COVER STORY – Faith in education: 7 headmasters speak to MCL

By Katie Eubanks Ginn Seven heads of metro Jackson independent schools recently spoke with MCL Editor Katie Eubanks Ginn about their institutions and how Christian education has...

Making marriage work — 2 couples talk faith, parenting, and navigating differences

MCL Editor Katie Eubanks Ginn recently sat down with two couples — Robert and Susan Green, and Bridgett and Johnny Clayton — to hear their stories and what God has taught them about...

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

By KATIE EUBANKS MCL Editor Katie Eubanks Ginn recently sat down with four men from across the Jackson metro area who serve in a variety of contexts, from pulpits to baseball fields,...

Moms in Prayer — Global organization, local impact

By KATIE EUBANKS On September 4, 2015, Jill Chaney’s husband passed away. A few weeks later, she attended her first Moms in Prayer meeting at First Presbyterian Day School (FPDS)...

Dr. Ivan and Mary Ann Parke — 2 teachers who’ve learned from God

By KATIE EUBANKS Dr. Ivan Parke was born in Mumbai, India (then Bombay), in 1965. He and his parents moved to America for economic opportunity when he was 2 years old, and now Ivan is a...

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...

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Count your Blessing

By Katie Eubanks Ginn I don’t know how to say this without bragging, but I had a pretty fantastic...

Editor’s Letter: On climbing trees and learning to rest

By Katie Eubanks Ginn My first memory of a tree involves climbing one. A plum tree grew in our...

Editor’s Letter: The power of God to salvation

By Katie Eubanks Ginn In the 2006 thriller “Déjà Vu,” Denzel Washington asks: “What if you had to...

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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...

Dr. Ivan and Mary Ann Parke — 2 teachers who’ve learned from God

by MS Christian Living

By KATIE EUBANKS Dr. Ivan Parke was born in Mumbai, India (then Bombay), in 1965. He...

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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...