Here’s a story I’ve heard twice this week from the building coordinator at Edgewater Baptist Church in New Orleans. (That’s my church.) We had a team of Baptists from Georgia scheduled to work on our sanctuary for last week. Two weeks ago, we found out that the sanctuary had suffered extreme termite damage over the...
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Friday night I was treated to a pretty interesting discussion. This year’s Greer Heard Forum brought together many famous philosophers, scientists, and theologians to discuss The Future of Atheism. It is in its third year. The first year I saw NT Wright (Bishop of Durham) face off against John Dominic Crossan (former chair of the...
Scot McKnight, author of the book Jesus Creed and a blog of the same name, spent today at NOBTS lecturing on several topics. I missed the first two due to class, but I did make the third lecture on the sociology of conversion, as he put it. I wouldn’t possibly be able to clearly or...
It’s about thirteen minutes into Thursday, as my clock reads. Tuesday was a special day. I’ll let you decide how to emphasize the word special. My school held a big rally and we all went out into the city to do things. Some people gutted homes, others fixed roofs, and my team prayer walked Uptown....
My friends Justin, Kirbey, and Dirk came into New Orleans Thursday, and I’ve spent the last couple days pretending they still lived here and everything was just as it was pre-Katrina. We call this therapy. Last night we ate at a restaurant that opened just after Justin and I moved here in August 2004 called...