It’s common for students of culture to reserve some of their harshest criticism for the members of our millennial generation. They’re self-serving, aimless, and committed to nothing, so the critics say. Perhaps those critics have not met any of the dear twenty- and thirty-somethings who served us so generously in the days following the recent flood in Baton Rouge. Like tens of thousands of our fellow south Louisianans, our home was flooded the weekend of August 13 and 14. We took on over three feet of water, damaging the structure, ruining our belongings, and devastating our family.  Water...

It’s common for students of culture to reserve some of their harshest criticism for the members of our millennial generation. They’re self-serving, aimless, and committed to nothing, so the critics say. Perhaps those critics have not met any of the dear twenty- and thirty-somethings who served us so generously in the days following the recent flood in Baton Rouge. Like tens of thousands of our fellow south Louisianans, our home was flooded the weekend of August 13 and 14. We took on over three feet of water, damaging the structure, ruining our belongings, and devastating our family.  Water...

The rain refuses to stop. It just keeps coming. It has been falling for a week, burdening the efforts of residents of Baton Rouge to get back up. The storm that hit Baton Rouge was not a single event, but has turned into a saga. The rain came in an unprecedented deluge creating flash floods that ambushed tens of thousands of people. And it has rained every day since. Some thought it could come, and some even prepared for what they deemed the “worst case scenario”, but no one predicted this. 24 inches of rain. Creeks, rivers, and bayous at their highest levels in hundreds...

The rain refuses to stop. It just keeps coming. It has been falling for a week, burdening the efforts of residents of Baton Rouge to get back up. The storm that hit Baton Rouge was not a single event, but has turned into a saga. The rain came in an unprecedented deluge creating flash floods that ambushed tens of thousands of people. And it has rained every day since. Some thought it could come, and some even prepared for what they deemed the “worst case scenario”, but no one predicted this. 24 inches of rain. Creeks, rivers, and bayous at their highest levels in hundreds...