Thinking theologically, as I’ve been encouraging others to do for my whole professional life, in accord with one commentator, 2020 will be one of the darkest times in our American history, but also one of the most hopeful. Theologically, it’s the horror of the cross...

We’ve been dealing with this for some time, since mid-March when we closed the campus. Seven months is a long time even over a superannuated life span. We’ve also been dodging the hurricanes. With any luck that’s just about at an end. Looks like we’ll be dealing with...

The very best advice I can give, and I am not reluctant in giving it concerning the virus, is: ASSUME I’VE GOT IT! If each one of us were to act that way, we would have a better chance of avoiding giving it or catching it. If you assume I’ve got it and I assume you’ve...

I’m an alum of the University of the South, Sewanee, along with a number of Christwood residents who are also alums or have grandchildren or other connections with that University. Many in the south and particularly those associated with the Episcopal Church have...

Hard as it may be to imagine, I used to be pretty active in sports. Believe it or not, basketball was my main one (I was short but I was quick and it wasn’t a time when they were still shooting underhand…remember that?). I also played baseball, second base, and a lot...

The good news, at least hopeful news, is that Louisiana is collaborating with six other states in a program of the Rockefeller Foundation to provide testing on a more rapid scale. The details have not yet been published so it just may be as we used to say in New...

It seems that each day we break a record in the nation for the number of cases of COVID-19. We continue to try to reverse the trend upward, but it seems the momentum is highly energized. Fortunately, we at Christwood continue to do well with no known cases of the...

  Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of chaos, and sometimes in the middle of chaos you find yourself.  Boona Mohammed   By now, everyone is probably aware of Governor Edwards proclamation that as of midnight last Sunday, masks are mandated outside one’s...

The new case counts reported for Louisiana this week are increasing to a horrific number that puts us in a rather major league of elites.  Unfortunately, that is so!  The burden is placed on all of us.  While there has been a major shift from those 65 years and over...