A while back I wrote a post about my former New Orleans Seminary roommate Britt and his wife Michaela. I took them on a photoshoot in Dublin, Texas back in September 2008. Britt’s sister Janna is getting married to Dan in October, and last weekend I drove over to the Big Easy to shoot their...
A funny thing happened in New Orleans last weekend. After four and a half years in seminary, including a year of exile from The Big Easy after Hurricane Katrina, I managed to graduate. Sure, I had to take my ONE. LAST. CLASS. at that seminary in Fort Worth, but I finally finished. And even though...
This is the last blog I’m writing from New Orleans. I have a few scheduled for the coming days because I’ll be trying to move things to Mobile then to Fort Worth, and I’m not sure how often I’ll be able to post. Today is one day shy of fulfilling my second full year in...
Joe McKeever, the Director of Missions at the Baptist Association of Greater New Orleans (BAGNO), wrote a post on his blog a few weeks ago outlining the status of our local Baptist churches. He broke them down into three categories: struggling, flourishing but with issues, and normal. My church, Edgewater, fell under the struggling category,...
Two years ago I packed up a few of my things and drove to my parents’ home in Mobile, Alabama. At the time, New Orleans had issued a voluntary evacuation; NOBTS issued a mandatory evacuation. Two days later, Hurricane Katrina pushed onshore as a category 3 hurricane. It was something I’d been through before. A...
