Notes from a Common-place Book

Common-place Book: n. a book in which common-places, or notable or striking passages are noted; a book in which things especially to be remembered or referred to are recorded.

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Death by Football

This headline in today's Tyler paper confirmed what everyone knew was coming. Little Lon Morris College in Jacksonville, Texas--the ...

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Easing Back into Things

This has been a long dry spell for me. I haven't tired of blogging, and it is not due to lack of subjects to discuss. There...

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Twenty Minutes at the Kimbell

St Anthony Torment of the Demons by Michealangelo (age 13) Ordination by Poussin I had the great pleasure of traveling to Fort Wor...

Monday, July 16, 2012

On Kicking a Ball

I have never been much interested in competitive sports. I take pride in the fact that I rarely know which teams are playing in the Superb...

On Loathsomeness

"Loathsome" was a particularly favored adjective used by the late, great Milton Burton . In his East Texas drawl, no one could ma...

Friday, June 22, 2012

This Week in American Religion

I've been too busy lately to do much in the way of blogging. We are having the coolest, wettest summer (for Texas) in many years...

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Sunday of All Saints

Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, hi...

A View from the Garden

My little postage-stamp of a garden out behind the chicken pen is going gangbusters. I planted tomatoes, peppers, squash, eggplant, zucchin...

Friday, June 08, 2012

Two Views of American Orthodoxy

I recently came across Rod Dreher’s Eastern Right: Conservative Minds Convert to Orthodox Christianity in the current issue of The Am...

Sunday, June 03, 2012

Just Like the Greeks, huh?

Well, that was certainly interesting. We had about 8 to 10 visitors--all young people--at Vigil Saturday night. The prospective bishop for...

Thursday, May 31, 2012

The Last Realist

Fellow foreign policy junkies will appreciate the discussion yesterday on Morning Joe . A number of the usual suspects were in attendance--...

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Red State Primary

The Texas election--officially known as the Republican Primary--went down today. A Democrat has not been elected to a statewide office...

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Presto Change-o

Since September 2006, our local Orthodox mission has met in an old 1926 schoolhouse. We own land where we plan to build our own ...

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Terry (John): Now past middle age, married, two sons, interested in lots of things.

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