In 1961, Rita Wilson, a young Cumberland Presbyterian from Humboldt, Tennessee, won the Miss Tennessee pageant. She is featured in “Our Stories” in the August 2022 issue of the Cumberland Presbyterian Magazine. She was also featured, along with two other pageant winners, in the August 25, 1961, issue of LIFE.   LIFE®© 1961

August 15, 2022 (RNS) By Emily McFarlan Miller Frederick Buechner was asked on numerous occasions how he would sum up everything he had preached and written in both his fiction and nonfiction. The answer, he said, was simply this: “Listen to your life.” That theme was constant across more than six decades in his career […]

Focus Stop and thank God for being present with you today. Ask for God’s guidance as you hear God’s voice through scripture and the writer. Read 2 Samuel 7:18-29 (NRSV) Then King David went in and sat before the LORD, and said, “Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what is my house, that you […]