by MS Christian Living | May 31, 2020 | Columns, Covers, Recent Cover Stories
By KATIE EUBANKS Stan Buckley had plans … But God! From lawyering to pastoring to starting a nonprofit In July 2010, as senior pastor at First Baptist Jackson, Stan Buckley had an appointment that would change his life. ...
by MS Christian Living | May 1, 2020 | Columns, Editor's Letter
#QuarantineLife lessons As I write, Gov. Tate Reeves has replaced his shelter-in-place order with a more lenient safer-at-home directive. We aren’t being told to self-quarantine, but we’re being urged to do so as much as possible for the next … little bit. ...
by MS Christian Living | May 1, 2020 | Columns, Covers, Recent Cover Stories
By KATIE EUBANKS Every step of the way Jill Ford on faith, family, politics, and eating her pride One of Jill Ford’s earliest memories is of riding a horse with her brother Reggie when she was 6 — and then realizing Reggie had jumped...
by mcl | Apr 3, 2020 | Columns, Editor's Letter
Pray, keep your distance, and don’t panic At press time, Mississippi had reported 20 deaths and 900+ cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus, and the global death toll had topped 40,000. This is cause for prayer, concern, and — for mercy’s sake, if...
by mcl | Apr 3, 2020 | Columns, Covers, Recent Cover Stories
by KATIE EUBANKS ‘We’re God’s adopted kids’ How Amy and Cliff Bates went from ‘easy street’ to mixed-race adoption Seven-year-old Levi Bates appears, for a second, at the front door of the house — he’s a flash of pink...