CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Enabled.

    Updated. In response to this, this, and this: When I was a kid, I didn’t like the word “disabled.” I don’t use the word often. If you search this website for the word, you’ll find only 39 posts that even contain it, many of which were written by others. During the last 5 years, I have published nearly 1,400 posts; I’ve specifically mentioned my disability in less than two dozen of them, and the vast majority of those posts were concerned with a larger story. All told, less than 1% of everything I have ever posted on this website even…

  • Hyperbole and Distortions: Fact-Checking LC President Aguillard

    In May 2009, Louisiana College President Joe Aguillard penned an editorial to The Baptist Message about the need for like-minded Baptists to engage in a type of warfare “against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world.” It wasn’t merely a rhetorical flourish. Aguillard directly accused President Barack Obama of being a “murderer,” claiming that the President was responsible for “carrying the banner” of allowing the murder of “21 babies per second.” Quoting (bold mine): The enemy is attacking the Christian’s territory and he is doing so at an exponential pace. The murder of our unborn…

  • Meditations On My Grandmother’s Life (Part Two of Six)

    Part Two: Shiloh Four years ago, the building that formerly housed Shiloh Baptist Church, one of the oldest African-American congregations in Central Louisiana, was threatened by the prospect of demolition, and shortly thereafter, it was named one of the top ten most endangered properties in the State by the Louisiana Trust for Historic Preservation. It’s not only a good-looking, historic building; it’s also the very first thing one sees when exiting northbound from Interstate 49 and into Downtown Alexandria. One afternoon, I called my grandmother at home to pitch the Shiloh project to her. I told her I wanted to…