To those who responded to my Facebook post on Tuesday: First of all, thank you for your kind responses. I, especially, thank those who thanked me for some small role that I may have had in your spiritual journey. I can only say two things: I am profoundly humbled by your comments and ALL the …
There’s got to be a morning after…come on sing with me… It is late morning after the storm… that is, twelve years ago, the morning after Hurrricane Rita crashed into my world…the sun is shining… the birds are singing… Wait, there are no birds… This is part of my recollection of what happened in the …
Remember.Recover.Resilience.Resurrection, v.2016 (This is an updated version of a previous blog) For many of us, in the Louisiana UMC connection, Saturday August 27, 2005 is a critical time marker. That day, clergy and lay delegates to Annual Conference gathered at FUMC Baton Rouge to vote on the closure and sale of the UM owned Lafon …
Remember.Recover.Resilience.Resurrection For many of us, in the Louisiana UMC connection, Saturday August 27, 2005 is a critical time marker. That day, clergy and lay delegates to Annual Conference gathered at FUMC Baton Rouge to vote on the closure and sale of the UM owned Lafon Nursing Home in NOLA. After the discussion and vote, our …
Adrienne Courtney Dantin January 28,1980- January 30, 2001 Today marks the 14th anniversary of the death of my niece, Adrienne Courtney Dantin. Adrienne was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma weeks after she began her freshman year of college at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Transy is a Disciples of Christ University adjacent to the University of …
As a child growing up in New Orleans, every Sunday night our family would watch a locally broadcasted show on the Public Broadcasting Station called, “A Sunday Journal.” The show was hosted by the late, Jim Metcalf. At the time of Jim Metcalf’s death in 1977, he was considered the “unofficial poet laureate” of New …
Okay, so, I got home last night from Lagniappe Theatre’s production of Smoke On The Mountain and all I could think was, “They did it, again!” and “How blessed are we in CENLA!” When people ask me about Alexandria, my response is, “It’s a great place to live! It is so alive with music, culture …
Last year, at Horseshoe Drive UMC we did something radically different for our Christmas Eve Service. For the previous five years, we had done a pretty traditional Christmas Eve service. By this I mean, we began in full light and ended in darkness. In fact, for several of those years, we began the service with …
This is a re-post from an article that I wrote some time ago, at the anniversary of 9-11. It was never my privilege to have known Russ Keene…and, in truth, all that I can say now is that I know a little about him. Leo Russell Keene III, “Russ,” was killed in the south tower …
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