by Robert Guffey | Jan 26, 2010 | Opinion
On the terrible August day in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina struck the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts, the daughter of a friend of mine was living in Waveland, Miss., and decided she would ride out the storm at home. After all, she lived a few miles from the water and...
by David Emmanuel Goatley | Sep 1, 2009 | Opinion
Hurricane Katrina made landfall four years ago in August. I left New Orleans just a few days before landfall and within a few days following, the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention was communicating throughout our network to help move supplies to Louisiana,...
by Bob Allen | Nov 23, 2005 | News
Officials at Baptist-affiliated William Carey College aren’t commenting about allegations by four former students expelled for using a college-owned generator after Hurricane Katrina claiming they were singled out for punishment because they are black. According...
by Bob Allen | Oct 6, 2005 | News
Evangelist Franklin Graham said Monday that Hurricane Katrina could spark a revival in New Orleans, cleaning up its image as a city of sin. “There’s been satanic worship. There’s been sexual perversion,” Graham said in an address at Thomas Road...
by James L. Evans | Sep 23, 2005 | Opinion
Wiley Bennett, pastor of Woodland Hill Baptist Church in Tyler, Texas, welcomed Katrina evacuees into his community with these words on the message sign in front of his church: “The Big Easy is the modern day Sodom and Gomorrah.” It is standard practice to...
