by Jan Bear | Jul 22, 2004 | Uncategorized
Father Patrick Reardon’s rant about a liturgical expert at a priests’ conference has buttressed my hope for the Church (not that my hope for the Church was flagging at the moment, but it never hurts to buttress). In Touchstone Magazine – Mere...
by Jan Bear | Jul 21, 2004 | Uncategorized
Unvoiced the Godhead spoke the Word And unflesh hands made man. Time’s Creator, not bound by time, More distant than the sky, Who willed to be in place and time Confined, who healed and spoke With hands and voice of matter born, Was one of us, though God. Closer...
by Jan Bear | Jul 20, 2004 | Uncategorized
A moving account of genocide during the Reign of Terror appears at Godspy: Once, there was a rich and beautiful and remote land, a land of secrets and songs and story; a land of ocean and forest and river; of quiet marsh and deep paths. Its people lived as they had...
by Jan Bear | Jul 17, 2004 | Uncategorized
Journalist and professor Terry Mattingly attended the North American Christian Convention in Phoenix. He writes: Here is what I saw. On one of the quieter halls of the convention center was a small room set aside for private prayer. Since this was a Protestant...
by Jan Bear | Jul 14, 2004 | Uncategorized
We get more than we can count of them every week, in the stilted English of someone who learned the language well, but not quite well enough: Esteemed Sir: I am the last of a wealthy family in [African country of your choice] and have $[???] billion dollars in [a...
by Jan Bear | Jul 13, 2004 | Uncategorized
In a comment, Douglas says I should explain the significance of the bridge in the upper left corner of this blog. To begin with the basics, it’s the Hwy. 101 bridge over Yaquina Bay at Newport, Oregon. It’s a beautiful bridge, built in 1936 when Oregon was...