Since 1966, Joe Paterno has ruled the roost at Penn State. Behind the glasses and the grandfatherly demeanor, there beat the heart of a football coach that taught integrity, honesty, character, and winning. For whatever inexplicable reason in 2002 (and in the years following that horrific incident), Joe Paterno appears to have fallen woefully short on…
NOLA 2012: The Thing That Matters Most
When the 2012 Southern Baptist Convention, meeting in the historic city of New Orleans, gavels to a close on Wednesday, June 20, what will be the thing that matters most? We will all have different answers to that question, but how we answer the question will perhaps set the course for the future of the…
Fried Catfish, Beignets, Bourbon Street & Lostness
As the airport shuttle made its way through the French Quarter on Saturday night, one passenger asked the driver if this was a “typical” night in the Quarter. He paused and then told us that five out of seven nights were crowded, with the other two nights only about half as full with tourists and…
The Battle in New Orleans & My Return Visit
It was the summer of 1990, just before the beginning of the Fall Semester of my third (and last) year at Florida State College of Law in Tallahassee. My mom, my 14 year-old sister, and a friend of my mom’s had ended an Amtrak Train trip out west with a final stop in New Orleans….
Stuck in the Middle: A Calvinistic Traditionalist in the SBC
After a brief hiatus from blogging, during which time A Statement of the Traditional Southern Baptist Understanding of God’s Plan of Salvation was published on SBC Today on May 30 (here), I keep hearing the lyrics of a particular (as opposed to general) song playing in my head: Well I don’t know why I came…