Recently I returned to Mississippi to preach at the United Methodist church I served immediately out of seminary. I turned 23 shortly after moving in. It’s a country church in Southwest Mississippi not unlike the one where I grew up….
Stories of the dead are coming to life at Poplar Springs Missionary Baptist Church Original Cemetery
“I had never known where my great-grandmother was buried,” said 74-year-old Carol Smith, a member of Poplar Springs Missionary Baptist Church in Anson County, N.C. “I used to go to my grandpa’s house, and I saw this picture of her…
Easter is for those who have been to the cemetery
Next Sunday, people in the United States will wish Easter felt like it did three years ago. They will put on new shoes and wonder if they should have gotten a half size larger. They will consider going out for…
Tombstones or steppingstones?
On holiday in the southwest coastal and midlands regions of England, we visited the small village of Lyndhurst, still known as the capital of The New Forest, because William the Conqueror established the area as a royal hunting ground back…