Religious Diversity in Southern Mississippi



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The Reverend Roy Reynolds, Consulting Minister, leads the children and adults in arm movements to a "song of gathering" for the ninety-sixth reunion of Our Home Universalist Unitarian Church near Ellisville, Mississippi.

Clarice Wansley (left) and Linda Foshee reminisce at the reunion. Wansley is a fourth-generation member of the founding family of Our Home Church. Foshee, a third-generation Universalist, serves as lay minister to the church of her childhood.

Members and friends of the Hattiesburg Unitarian Universalist Fellowship go through a series of yoga stretches during a Sunday morning service.

Young Unitarian Universalists and friends perform "This Little Light of Mine" during a Festival of Lights service at the Hattiesburg Unitarian Unversalist Fellowship.

Three weeks after the storm surge from Hurricane Katrina left the sanctuary of the Lighthouse Apostolic Holiness Church in Biloxi, Mississippi unsafe for habitation, Reverend Debruce Nelxon preaches to his congregation. While they worked to restore their sanctuary to its former glory, the congregation met for services in the right lane of Division Street.

Senior Pastor Micah Scott lays on hands during the healing portion of a Sunday morning serivce at the Tabernacle of Prayer Church of God in Christ, Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

Pastor Micah Scott preaches a special sermon for the young folks at the Sunday morning service of the Tabernacle of Prayer Church of God in Christ.

Edna Johnson, Associate Pastor, comes down to pray for the people near the end of the regular Sunday worship service. In the background Senior Pastor Micah Scott lays hands on the young people of the church during the healing portion of the service.

Members of the Tabernacle of Prayer Church of God in Christ, Hattiesburg, Mississippi praise the Lord during their regular Sunday morning service.

Jeanette Scott, wife of Pastor Micah Scott, surrenders to the Lord during the regular Sunday morning worship service.


Images © Cindy Brown/The Pluralism Project

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