Warner Brothers has confirmed that July 13, 2007 is its official film release date for the movie based on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, with a trailer to come later this year. I am enjoying seeing...
I've had a busy couple of days -- meetings, appointments, errands, more meetings... and I never did make it to the grocery store today, and I only finally make it home at around 10pm. I'm not complaining -- it's all...
here I am, eyes blurry, from not going to bed on time. my days have been long, and nights unrestful. I am ready to have a weekend. man last weekend just rattled my cage. ...
If I take a look at my department calendar right now there is something that makes me smile: “Alli- PTO” BIG SMILE! (PTO means paid time off.) On April 13th, 14th, 17th, & 18th I am going to be off, out of...
I only have ten minutes to say what I want to say. Perhaps that's a good thing. Perhaps I'll be forced to spit out some clarity from this swirling mess of ideas in my mind. This week...
I have been introduced (figuratively speaking) to a woman named Carolyn McCulley this week. I have been reading some of her articles and blog posts. She is very insightful, and although her ministry is primarily to single women, much of...
Even as Chattanooga's City Council debates banning vendors from the streets, Buffalo, New York is discovering that it misses the old pushcarts. So it's bringing vendors back. But how will it prevent public spaces from turning into a melee of...
“Kafka’s humor – not only not neurotic but anti-neurotic, heroically sane – is, finally, a religious humor, but religious in the manner of Kierkegaard and Rilke and the Psalms, a harrowing spirituality against which even Ms. O’Connor’s bloody grace seems...
In a rather loosely coordinated maneuver, I have unveiled the newest look for the TN House of Representatives Ballot Preview page (now called Battle for the General Assembly 2006 - House of Representatives), and Adam Groves has announced this change...
Jim Bryson for Governor? That's old news. How about Jim Boyd for Governor? Boyd, who is also running for the State House seat in District 58 (incumbent: Mary Pruitt), sent a press release to the effect that he will...
In a lengthy excerpt, Are Catholics and Orthodox in schism?, the Pontificator quotes Fr. Louis Bouyer on the question: Today, the first remedy to this situation, now that sufficient historical awareness of these errors (which are above all, moral faults) has...
From Protopriest, Fr. David Moser, The Bible and Holy Tradition: I often use metaphor and parable when preaching, and I'd like to share a brief version of one with you that addresses just this issue. Picture a beautiful jeweled pendant....
Since I have passed my fiftieth birthday, I suppose it is okay for me to refer to myself as an “old timer”. Well earlier this week I was attending an energy conference with a bunch of other old...
"Hopefully it occurs to me that there's one thing I cant stand. That's the thought of a single day, without your head in my hand." (my morning jacket)...
I've been meaning to post about health care ever since I took a friend to the emergency room a few weeks ago (the friend, who had a broken bone, is fine now). We went to Erlanger, and it was an...
Disturbing news from this Scripps Howard News Service article: Most Americans don't believe they will experience a resurrection of their bodies when they die, putting them at odds with a core teaching of Christianity. The findings of a new Scripps Howard/Ohio University...
Enclosed is my 2005 tax return & payment. Please take note of the attached article from USA Today newspaper. In the article, you will see that the Pentagon is paying $171.50 for hammers and NASA has paid $600.00 for a toilet...
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