Calling audibles

It's rare that an issue of The Index goes from the start of the production cycle to the end of it looking the same. Months in advance we plan for particular feature stories/series to go in or prepare for stories that relate to that time of the year, such as Easter.

I was working on the first installment of the mental health series in preparation for the March 15 issue when we realized that Easter was coming earlier this year. Joe, our managing editor, is working on a story for that issue (March 29) about a former Satanist. Each year during spring training we run a story about Christians on the Braves. This year, Dr. Harris interviewed a fairly well-known one and wrote about his testimony. That story will be in our upcoming issue.

Something else being held is a story about a member of First Baptist Quitman who died in church but was then brought back to life. We thought it would go better with the Easter issue, for obvious reasons.