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At home, at work, at play: Let’s make disciples

By Katie Ginn Last year, by God’s grace, I met a lofty goal for MCL business revenue. My reward was a long weekend with Stephen in Hot Springs, Arkansas! We made the five-hour drive in March, during...
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On busyness and reading binges

By Katie Ginn Since getting married two years ago this month, Stephen and I have been on a journey to find our place as a couple in Christian community. I have close girlfriends whom I see and talk...
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Lunching and learning my worth in Christ

By Katie Ginn A few weeks ago, Stephen sat at the kitchen island and listened patiently while I slipped into a good old-fashioned spiral, ranting about All The Things I Wasn’t Good At and All The...
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Put your mouth and your money where your heart is

By Katie Ginn I just read a book called “Half Broke Horses,” a true story about a cattle ranching woman named Lily Casey Smith, who was helping her dad break horses by age 6. Lily was the oldest of...
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Failed recipes and firstfruits

By Katie Ginn Last Sunday (as I write), I made us late for Stephen’s company Christmas party because I underestimated how long I would need to make green bean casserole. Then at the party, we...
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10 ways to add color to dark days

By Katie Ginn Well, it finally happened. Before we even “fell back” at the end of Daylight Savings Time, Stephen and I were driving home in the dark one evening, and I felt the existential dread...
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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 included the Incline Railway on Lookout Mountain and ice cream at Clumpie’s, both of which I’d...
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My struggle to leave the phone alone

By Katie Ginn The other night, I introduced Stephen to “Miss Congeniality,” the Sandra Bullock movie from the year 2000. (I had watched “Sonic the Hedgehog,” so it was only fair.) Sandy plays a...
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Why the gospel is for failures

By Katie Ginn Can I talk to the teacher’s pets for a minute? It’s OK, I’m one of you. I’ll be gentle. In this month’s cover story, Heath Ferguson says he wants people to understand that their value...
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Sick of the darkness? Turn on the light!

By Katie Ginn Sunday, July 14, was a heavy day at Broadmoor Baptist Church. First, like the rest of America, we were trying to process the attempted assassination of a presidential candidate. At the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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;...
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AUTHOR Q&A — 1 pilgrim, many interruptions

by | 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....