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Health & fitness tips for 2025

With the new year come new resolutions to be good stewards of the bodies (and minds) God gave us. Here are some tips to help you get started. Many of these people and organizations are MCL...
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Bill and Becky Caldwell: Fearless and faithful

By Katie Ginn When Bill and Becky Caldwell went to bed at their home in Little Rock on December 1, 1991, they had no idea that they’d be spending the next afternoon as hostages in their own attic. ...
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Thank you, pastors! Mississippi churches express their appreciation

In honor of Pastor Appreciation Month, following are some “thank-you”s from Mississippi churches to their pastors. Don’t see your pastor on these pages? Tell your church to contact us next fall!...
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Mississippi mental health resource guide

For our Faith & Mental Health edition, we wanted to provide a list of people, organizations, and resources that can help with everything from suicidal ideation to intimacy problems, substance...
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Your favorite public school teachers and coaches

Public school educators and coaches are some of the hardest-working individuals we know, and we asked YOU to name your favorites. Read on to meet just a few of Mississippi’s brightest lights - and...
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Wedding vendors’ advice for your big day

We asked Mississippi wedding vendors, “What’s the biggest piece of advice you would offer your clients?” Their answers provide lots of helpful hints that will make the big day go better - and even...
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Men in ministry: From law offices to prison cells

By Courtney Ingle We often think being a “disciple” means being alongside Jesus during His earthly ministry; a more contemporary image of a disciple of Christ might look like a pastor behind a...
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Organizations fostering hope for Mississippi kids

In honor of National Foster Care Month, we wanted to highlight some of the organizations that are providing help for kids and families throughout our state. Check out these ministries to see how you...
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Cordera and Rankin Eason’s touchdown testimony

By Courtney Ingle Like many athletes, Cordera Eason had his eyes on a pro football career. During his time at Ole Miss, Eason put in the work, and in 2010, he joined the NFL’s Cincinnati Bengals. In...
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Hope Credit Union celebrates 3 decades of ministry

Hope Credit Union celebrates 3 decades of ministry

By Courtney Ingle Financial hardships can make it seem like there isn’t any hope out there at all. When you’re being hit left, right and center with every bill and expense imaginable, it can feel...
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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....