David Crosby 05/12/08
Unique, interesting, and charming-these are great descriptors for the Crescent City.But it is also tough duty these days to live here, and we do ourselves no favors by insisting otherwise.I just spoke to a former member who relocated and is enjoying the experience of "normal"-a landscape without Katrina litter.Every time I drive through New Orleans East, particularly at Read Boulevard, I fight a surge of despair. The vacancy-empty frames and windswept lots and abandoned medical facilities and ...
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David Crosby 05/09/08
Esther is a woman of courage and virtue, a fitting place to be as we think of Mother’s Day. She is in a very difficult position. Her life is filled with limitations. She is young and inexperienced, and the future of her family and her nation is in her hands. Her adoptive father, trying to encourage her and help her do the right thing, says to her, And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this? (Esther 4:14).Everyone should consider these words of Mordecai ...
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