On Tuesday afternoon, February 23, 2016, an EF2 tornado struck LaPlace, Louisiana. The tornado hit with maximum wind speeds of 130 mph. The base was 1/4 mile wide and traveled several miles through the community, damaging over 500 homes and businesses. Several injuries were reported, though none were reported to
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I have to confess that before we started planning this trip, I had no clue that Lesotho existed. It’s a tiny independent nation, about ¼ the size of Louisiana, that is contained fully within the borders of South Africa. But I know now that it exists, and I know that
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My heart was recently overtaken by a tidal wave of emotions that sent my spirit tumbling into turbulence. I saw persons dear to me–as they once were, as they now are, and as they yet may be. Thoughts of love and hope and memories of my failures and culpability flooded
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Two-thirds of the Cooperative Program money given in Louisiana for world missions stops in Alexandria. This week those CP funds were used to attack Russell Moore, head of our SBC Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. Editorialist Will Hall is paid by these same CP funds that publish the Baptist Message.
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Martin Luther King Jr. is a titan of our Christian faith; truly an extraordinary man of God. I feel like my kingdom agenda is small when I consider his work, and at the same time, I’m inspired to try great things for the kingdom of Christ. Before his address to
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