Dear Miss Caleefornya (as your governor calls it), You’re now waaaay beyond your 15 minutes of fame and if you are sincere about your high-minded morality and Christian faith, then please get out of the public eye now because the public has seen enough of you preening across the stage in that string bikini and [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Excuse this personal message to Miss Caleefornya
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Faith & Church, Media, Theology on May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Me & my bud, Bud Shrake
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Media on May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I read in the paper today that the venerable old Sports Illustrated writer, novelist and screenwriter Edwin “Bud” Shrake has died. Shrake was one three Sports Illustrated superstar writers–the others being Frank DeFord and Dan Jenkins, who are still churning out great journalism and books independent of SI, of another era. Shrake also wrote some [...]
Jitterbugging to Ordination (Part 3)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Faith & Church, Theology on May 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Hard to describe the feelings I’m having these days about my impending ordination date with God and the bishop and all those ordained Methodist clergy who will be laying hands on me the night of June 8 when I get on my weak knees at the altar. Not even sure what I feel about it [...]
For Goldie Gladine Chasteen McKay (A Mother’s Day Indulgence)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Theology on May 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I always remember the most youthful and vigorous you, Goldie, and how you and dad used to love to hold the “summer smokers on the ground” in the backyard on Elm Street, with everybody circled in lawn chairs in the green grass under the pecan tree while we kids played “greasy pig” and caught lightning [...]
Of Abortion, Barn Building & Those Big, Tumbling Banks
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Theology on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“We oppose abortion. “Our culture, however, countenances every form of self-indulgence and then we expect average people to practice heroic virtue in carrying a child through a difficult pregnancy. “The economy that is collapsing has been based on ‘barn building,’ and on individual and corporate self-interest. “Jesus said his gospel is not about building barns [...]
Jitterbugging with the Great Dave
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Faith & Church, Music, Theology on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You most loyal jitterbuggers–you who are, as they say in the silly world of politics, “my base,”–say to me, “Paul–or Jitterbugger–when are you gonna give us that review of the Dave Matthews show you’ve been promising?” And I have to correct them right off the bat and say, “Whoa there, jitterbugger! Did you say Dave [...]
