Troy Lowry (left) and Bert Montgomery holding their ZZ Top keychains. Destrehan High School, Destrehan, LA. May, 1986Editor’s note: Since last fall (2009) Bert Montgomery, a native of New Orleans and...
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I love Johnny Russell’s songs, and my favorite Johnny Russell song is “The Baptism of Jesse Taylor” (click here to listen). The first person I ever baptized was a man who, in many ways, reminds me of...
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I honestly don’t remember when I met first Darla or her family. I was ten years old – that much I know for sure because that’s how old I was when we moved to Destrehan, and when we started...
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In the fall of 1980, when I was 12 years old, I went with my dad into downtown New Orleans to his office on Magazine Street. Driving down Canal Street, the home of the beautiful and historic Saenger Theatre,...
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Since last fall (2009) Bert Montgomery, a native of New Orleans and the River Parishes, has been collecting stories from his childhood friends, high school classmates, neighbors and church family about their...
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I clearly remember buying Vincent Bugliosi’s now legendary book Helter Skelter in paperback from my local grocery store when I was about twelve years old (I’m forty-one now, if you must know). I...
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Debbie has been in my most inner-circle of Destrehan High friends almost since I arrived there in 1983; along with my closest friends Ronny and Marta, she is one of the few people I have remained in contact...
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I recently sat on a discussion panel at one of the Baptist institutions of higher learning in which I once studied. The panelists shared our thoughts as we explored this question: “Can someone be a Christian...
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In part two of our interview with Oteil Burbridge, Oteil shares about when he started playing instruments, how reading William Barclay and Abraham Joshua Heschel has guided his journey of faith, what Peter...
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Disclaimer: The following musing was composed in September 2005 while I was a student at the Baptist Seminary of Kentucky. It was based on a news report that Pat Robertson publicly declared Hurricane Katrina...
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Kofi Burbridge and Bert MontgomeryFaithLab is excited to begin a new project exploring faith, music and spirituality. For our first audio interview, our own Bert Montgomery sat down with Kofi Burbridge, who...
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The first song I heard when I turned on the car radio was “Tunnel,” the Third Day song proclaiming: There’s a light at the end of this tunnel Shinin’ bright at the end of this tunnel For you, for...
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