In August 2004, I moved to New Orleans to attend seminary. In August 2005, I left thinking I’d be back in a few days. It took nine months. June 1, 2006, actually, was the day I moved back. The first day of hurricane season. It’s been a year now. [...]

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After Katrina, NOBTS experimented with online classes via something called a Threaded Discussion System (TDS).  Basically, our classes were self-guided, with online discussion that was led by our professors.  The majority of our information was sent to in PowerPoint files loaded on Blackboard, and that’s where our discussion took place as well.   Some liked it, [...]

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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 [...]

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