“Greenbelt is a festival which encourages ideas, thinking, and debate, and I’m contributing to that, not that I expect people to agree with me.”
Hand-wound no more: after six centuries, the historic Wells Cathedral clock is now turned by an electric motor.
One little cab ride may not change the tide of interreligious politicking or the convictions of many, but it looks to have opened the door for the few to talk. And that beats keeping silent vigil any day.
Now that the 2nd All Africa Bishops’ Conference is all but ended, a flurry of communications has arrived at our electronic transom.
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Didn’t have the time/will yesterday for Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally? Neither did we. But someone did, and found that Beck is positioning himself to receive a mantle he may not be prepared to bear.
I lived to play defense—my hitting and striking out and stealing bases and popping out to the first baseman and scoring from second were dry toast. Catching fly balls and cutting off balls hit in the gap were pizza and hamburgers. I relished being a member of the home team because it meant wallowing in the purgatorial dugout was delayed half an inning.
This book will make a traveller of thee,
If by its counsels thou wilt ruled be;
It will direct thee to the Holy Land,
If thou wilt its directions understand:
Yea, it will make the slothful active be;
The blind also delightful things to see.