375 Reasons to Love Christmas

375 Reasons to Love Christmas

[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell”][/title] This is a hard story to tell. Not because of its subject. The subject is wonderful. A church in Fort Smith, Arkansas, hoping to help the children of those in prison, does all it can to make Christmas special...
Holiday Hospitality 101

Holiday Hospitality 101

[title subtitle=”words: Rachel Gerner”][/title] “To welcome the stranger is to acknowledge him as a human being made in God’s image; it is to treat her as one of equal worth with ourselves — indeed, as one who may teach us something out of...
I am Christmas

I am Christmas

[title subtitle=”words & images Jessica Sowards”][/title] I am a basket. I hold a bundle of rosemary, traded by a soft-spoken man to the woman with the farm and all the sons, tied with a ribbon and smelling of warmth. I hold a jar of spicy jam,...
The Humble Life of Hop Bray

The Humble Life of Hop Bray

[title subtitle=”words: Heather Steadham Images: courtesy Hop Bray”][/title] Garland “Hop” Bray is a man who figured it all out relatively early in life—but it took him a scared-straight-like trip to the only prison in Arkansas that executes death...

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