Deep South Deacon

Most of the country, if not the Western world has heard about the effort by the City of New Orleans to remove monuments that can any way be construed to glorify anything to do with the Confederate States of America.  The four monuments that Mayor Mitch Landrieu put on the his hit list are:

The monument to the Battle of Liberty Place

The statue to Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard at the front of New Orleans City Park

The statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee

The Monument to the one and only president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis

The mayor has used a 1993 ordinance that allows monuments to be declared public nuisances and have them removed.  You can read a summary of that ordinance here.

The following is an approximation of a homily that I delivered at St Luke the Evangelist in Slidell, LA on May 14, 2017, the fifth Sunday in Easter, Year A.  The scripture readings on which this is based can be found by clicking here.

I use an App called Waze (W-A-Z-E) for directions when I am driving, a cross between a GPS and social media.