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MCL’s Christian Leaders of the Year

By Katie Ginn Each year, MCL asks for nominations for Christian Leaders of the Year to be featured in our December cover story. This year’s honorees shared about everything from church planting to...

Adoption: A glimpse of the heart of God

By Katie Ginn In honor of National Adoption Awareness Month, we talked with four adoptive families from Mississippi who shared their stories. These stories are all different, but they’re all about...

6 pastors share their heart for the body of Christ

By Katie Ginn October is Pastor Appreciation Month, and we thought it only fitting to interview a few! These six servant leaders sat down with MCL Editor Katie Ginn to talk about their ministry...

Heath & Emily Ferguson: Addiction, recovery, and transparency

By Katie Ginn Emily Guthrie grew up in northeast Jackson. As a teen, she went on mission trips. Heath Ferguson grew up in rural Copiah County. As a teen - starting at age 11, in fact - he abused...

Teachers & coaches share encouragement for parents

By Katie Ginn MCL Editor Katie Ginn recently interviewed eight teachers and coaches from metro-area independent schools. These leaders discussed why they do what they do, how they’ve seen God move...

2 couples on laughter, trials, and prayer

By Katie Ginn For our Marriage Issue, Katie interviewed two wise and witty power couples: Joel and Peppi Sims, senior pastors of Word of Life Church, and Felix and Rashida Walker, broker and realtor...

Chris and Polly Kellum: From pain to purpose

By Katie Ginn Chris Kellum was a husband and father who worked in medical sales, served faithfully at his church in northeast Jackson, and did sports ministry on the side. Check, check, check. Then...

Transforming our capital city: The women of Jackson Leadership Foundation

By Katie Ginn Editor’s note: For this year’s Women’s Issue, we’re highlighting eight women who serve Jesus on staff at Jackson Leadership Foundation (JLF). JLF partners with Christian ministry...

Debi Green: Surviving cancer, thriving in faith

By Katie Ginn In Debi Green’s living room in Brandon, a canvas illustration hangs on the wall. In the foreground of the picture, a lamb stands alone on a muddy trail in the woods. The lamb is...

2024 Christian Leaders of the Future

For 16 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...

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10 ways to add color to dark days

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Chattanooga and the Monster Weed

By Katie Ginn When Stephen and I drove to Chattanooga for a long weekend last month, our plans...

My struggle to leave the phone alone

By Katie Ginn The other night, I introduced Stephen to “Miss Congeniality,” the Sandra Bullock...

Recent Cover Stories

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...