CONVERSATIONS

Henderson, Kentucky’s Sam Moore interviews Bert (February 2026)

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Arlo Guthrie (1992)

In the spring of 1992, Bert was a graduate student working on a project for a class on the 1960s. Armed with a cheap cassette recorder,he traveled up to Great Barrington, Massachusetts, (just outside Stockbridge) and sat with Arlo on the front steps of the legendary church to talk about music, social change, the 1960s, his dad, and more.

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Kofi Burbridge (2009)

In September 2009, Bert sat down with Kofi Burbridge (at the time he was with the Derek Trucks Band) in an upstairs backstage room in Oxford, MS and chatted about music and spirituality and other such things.

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Oteil Burbridge (2009)

In October 2009, Bert sat down with Oteil Burbidge on the Allman Brothers’ tour bus in Knoxville, TN for a conversation about faith and spirituality, music, politics, and appearing with Peter Sellers in Being There.

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About Bert

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Rev. Bert Montgomery grew up outside of New Orleans, lived in Memphis, and dearly loves the state that connects the two. He believes Willie Nelson has achieved sainthood in this life, that Jesus would much prefer coffee with Ellen DeGeneres over Pat Robertson, that James Brown offers the best steps toward an active faith, and that Arlo Guthrie has a better grasp of the Gospel than most Baptist preachers.

Bert has delivered pizzas for an independent restaurant, cleaned toilets and mopped floors for a large church, worked as a juvenile court probation officer in two different cities, and served local congregations as a youth minister and as senior pastor. Presently, he is pastor of University Baptist Church in Starkville, MS, and he is an instructor in two departments at Mississippi State University.

Bert’s columns have appeared in multiple newspapers and and in The Huffington Post, Red Letter Christians, EthicsDaily, and more.