Louisiana – Red Letter Christians

A Love Song for the Long-Haul: LA UMC Pastors on Hurricane Ida Aftermath

September 10, 2021

Church Life, Creation & Environment, Practical Justice

The journey ahead is complex and rightly so—filled with both triage and rehab efforts, insurance claims and bucket truck parades, adrenaline highs and compassion fatigue, questions about climate change and environmental refugees, retelling the story, and sharing the load again and again and again.

The Morning After Ida Makes Landfall, a Prayer

Patrice Gopo

August 30, 2021

Creation & Environment, General, Practical Justice

Some days I wake in the morning disoriented, my mind mixing up my dreamscape with the reality of what transpires in life. In my dreamscape, my arms reach for a cerulean sky, a perfect sky. This image becomes th...

HUGE NEWS: Glenn Ford released after 30 years on Death Row

Shane Claiborne

March 12, 2014

General, Race

MAR 12, 2014 | BY: SHANE CLAIBORNE -- THIS JUST IN… Louisiana Judge orders Glenn Ford to be released after 30 years on death row….

Mardi Gras – For Baptists

Bert Montgomery

February 21, 2012

General

It's been almost 26 years since I left Louisiana with my parents, and I still really miss the Mardi Gras season. Mardi Gras is one long, enormous party – in the best, and sometimes the worst, sense of the w...

Of Jaws, Fishing for Men, and the Kingdom of God

Bert Montgomery

January 31, 2012

General

Quint the fisherman, played to perfection by the scene-stealing Robert Shaw in the 1975 Steven Spielberg masterpiece, Jaws, was a rugged, thick-skinned, and independent man who played by his own rules and ...