Count your Blessing

By Katie Eubanks Ginn I don’t know how to say this without bragging, but I had a pretty fantastic Thanksgiving. (The one disappointment was that my parents couldn’t make it to the Eubanks family...
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Climbing the plum tree in our backyard in Dardanelle, Arkansas

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 backyard in Dardanelle, Arkansas, and while the fruit didn’t thrill me, the tree did. I was happier...
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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 tell someone the most important thing in the world, but you knew they’d never believe you?” To which...
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EDITOR’S LETTER – Yes, God cares about your mental health

By Katie Eubanks Ginn I was watching an episode of “The Crown”* the other night, and at one point I was struck by how closely Queen Elizabeth’s aides were following her.    In the scene, the queen...
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EDITOR’S LETTER – Where do you get your worth?

By Katie Eubanks Ginn I recently attended a Pro-Life Mississippi luncheon. Before I even sat down, somebody asked, “How’s married life?” It’s the question of the hour, and I’m happy to answer: Being...
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EDITOR’S LETTER June 2023

    On becoming Mrs. Ginn        Yes, it’s finally time to write about the wedding! First, I want to tell y’all how I found out that my husband is, in fact, an imperfect human.  ...
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EDITOR’S LETTER May 2023

  On writing for the Lord        Well, my signature has changed. I’m officially Katie Ginn now! I won’t have time to write about my wedding before we go to press, but in the meantime,...
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EDITOR’S LETTER April 2023

  Marriage licenses and photo booths        By the end of this month, I’ll be married.  I’ll be Katie Ginn, though I might still include “Eubanks” for MCL matters. Just a week before this...
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EDITOR’S LETTER March 2023

The Valentine’s week saga        In case you’re wondering, wedding planning is going well. We have most of the big pieces in place for April 21 except the caterer and florist, which ought to be...
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EDITOR’S LETTER February 2023

To behold the beauty of the Lord        Recently, I was thinking about Paris. (Any excuse will do, right?) I got to go there in 2009, and I hope to return one day with Stephen. That city was...
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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....