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By Katie Ginn If you’re driving toward Mount Nebo outside of Dardanelle, Arkansas, and you pass...

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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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My turn as ‘The Star-Spangled Girl’

by | Jul 1, 2025

By Laura Lee Leathers After completing my military schooling as a cryptanalyst (deciphering Morris Code) at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, I was assigned to Augsburg, Germany, with the Army Security Agency. Here, I debuted my first significant acting role. Have you ever heard of the Broadway...

Gore Arts Complex serves MC, Clinton community

by | Jul 1, 2025

By Katie Ginn In 1951, the late Dr. Samuel Gore began teaching art in a former cafeteria in a Mississippi College dormitory. Over the years, Gore developed MC’s art curriculum, recruited artistically inclined students, cultivated a significant interest in art on campus, and established the Sam...

The lost art of wonder

by | Jul 1, 2025

By Annalissa Cochran “He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.” - Einstein  What is wonder? Webster defines wonder as “a rapt attention or astonishment at something awesomely mysterious or new to one’s experience.” The bigger question is,...

Before and after: Kitchen Tune-Up

by | May 30, 2025

Submitted by Kitchen Tune-Up “When I first moved into my home, I felt like something was missing. I had always dreamed of a light, airy kitchen — one that was not only beautiful and open but also efficient and easy to navigate. I would see stunning kitchens on TV and imagine having a bright,...