March 2008
7 posts
"The Humanness of Catholic Identity" →
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Trent Gilliss, Online Editor
With Pope Benedict XVI’s upcoming U.S. visit, we’re taking the opportunity to start a broad-ranging conversation about the rich tradition of Roman Catholicism. With all the recent headlines, diverse practitioners of the faith have had little voice in telling their stories. This is where you come in. If you are or were Catholic, we’d like to hear...
Cheap Stair Parts →
I’ve been thinking a lot about the cable rail that’s spec’d for the 2nd floor lookout balcony and, now, as Mike informs me, for the guard rails that just came into play. There was something unique and cool about this, but now just seems like a bygone trend that will feel like dated tubular rails painted white or black from the 1980s with some metal-framed Robert Nagel prints.
I’ve never really...
Breaking News: "Shroud of Turin Accidentally... →
speakingoffaith: Trent Gilliss, Online Editor OK, I apologize. This satirical headline from The Onion touched my funny bone on so many levels that I had to share. I quickly remembered the horror of an 8th-grade boy who found his brand new, jet black concert t-shirt from Sammy Hagar’s 3-Lock Box tour a desert army brown after my mother bleached it. And, with the Lenten season in full swing and...
Poems of a Late Wandering Irishman
Trent Gilliss, Online Editor One thing we know about our fan base — they (you?) love words, especially poesy. The response to Tess Gallagher’s poem about her time with Thich Nhat Hanh made that clear. So, in one of Krista’s limited face-to-face interviews (see Shiraz’s post about what a more typical interview looks like), she was regaled by the lilting tongue and picturesque poetry of the late...
“Whenever I was on the plane heading to Washington, my wife was kind of looking...”
– — Andy Pettitte, All-Star pitcher for the New York Yankees, at a press conference several days after he gave a deposition to a congressional committee testifying that he used HGH in 2002 and 2004. The verses read: Let every person be subject to the governing authorities; for there is no authority...