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Plan A

Plan A

Listen to the AudioI love Louisiana. Our food. Our climate. Our landscape. Above all our people. I grew up elsewhere, but Louisiana isn’t just where I live. It’s home.Precisely because Louisiana is my home, I take our problems and challenges to heart. And to be...

Christmas Lights, a Junkyard, and the Manger

My eyelids sprang open at three in the morning. Christmas morning. I was seven years old. My half brother Joel—already twelve and too cool for kid stuff—lay sleeping soundly next to me on a makeshift cot in the dining room. Fueled by the anticipation of Santa’s...
Getting to the Bottom of Things

Getting to the Bottom of Things

In the beginning was the Word.  (John 1:1)As a younger man, I served on a philosophy faculty.  And although I enjoyed research and teaching advanced classes, my real love was teaching introductory classes.Especially freshmen entered those classrooms with a willingness...