We have a rotation among our church’s Session to fill the pulpit whenever there is a fifth Sunday in a month (though it gets moved around sometimes for the sake of convenience). Until recently, it worked out to about once a year for each of us (now that we have added two more elders [...]
For some time I have been intending to pick up Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. My wife, father-in-law, one brother-in-law and an English professor friend have all read and recommended the series–with certain caveats, of course. I am sure that by now you have heard about the controversy. One can hardly [...]
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Tonight was to be the last of our men’s groups until after the new year. We did not meet this past Wednesday because of Thanksgiving and in classic Scott fashion I forgot to send out the weekly reminder. The consequence was that it was just Bill and me eating my wife’s delicious chocolate-chip [...]
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Most of my junior year in Mr. Lavelle’s high school English class was spent memorizing poetry from throughout the vast spectrum of Western literature. The final examination was to recite on paper some sixty different verses of poetry and prose. As pointless as it seemed at the time (akin to learning algebra), it [...]
