by J. Christian Lewis | Oct 29, 2022 | Church
Editor’s Note: This is the first in an anticipated series on evangelism in Acadiana. The inspiration for this series came from a conversation with a friend last year. Around Christmas of 2021, the Opelousas Pregnancy Center hosted a party for...
by J. Christian Lewis | Oct 29, 2022 | Government
Grand Lake, Louisiana, rests along Highway 384 between Lake Charles and the Gulf. Its fields of rice and livestock lay crisscrossed with canals and inlets. For generations, the neighbors of the Cameron Parish community have helped one another through harvest and...
by J. Christian Lewis | Oct 29, 2022 | Government
“One of the first cases I got at the DA’s office was a case where a little girl was raped by a friend’s father,” Roya Boustany related. “I didn’t have children at that point. It shaped very early on what my husband and I have done with our children....
by J. Christian Lewis | Jul 30, 2022 | Church
This Saturday morning over fifty men, women and children gathered outside of the St. Landry Parish Court House in Opelousas, Louisiana, to celebrate last month’s Supreme Court overturning of Roe v. Wade. From under the partial shade of a nearby oak, the celebration...
by J. Christian Lewis | Jun 25, 2022 | Government
Yesterday five Supreme Court justices ended Roe’s bloody reign.1 The Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision was courageous given the recent murder attempt of Justice Kavanaugh. Acadiana’s prolife community’s grateful reaction to their decision is...
