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Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

The Gift

What it means to watch a life

Jeb Phillips on Mother's Day: All of it, every second, has been a gift.

Lisa Norman knows this because she and her husband, Jack, prayed for a year and a half for a baby and then, one day in November, she learned she was pregnant.

She bled through most of the pregnancy, but she prayed and the members of the Athens United Pentecostal Church put their hands on her and prayed, too. She bled, but the ultrasound at 21 weeks showed the baby had Jack's nose.

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