Bits past, present, and future
Spring on the Plains! and the Red River Valley. Well, not just yet, but soon. The weekend’s winds kicked up some 3-4 foot troughs on Texoma Saturday. They brought some more of New Mexico, West Texas, and western Oklahoma eastward, too, so there must have been a bit of dust-storming westward. [...]
per-
(A prefix; connotes modification, intensification, as in perfection . . .)
My Dear, if I say you are gorgeous:
You knock my eyes out!
What if I say Hey, Per-gorgeousness?
Have I eyes enough to last? I hope so.
Ah, perfect love! For today, let us relegate the classical, sacrificial charity-love to a wall seat where it shall surely remain, but for a few lines. Take up (as C. S. Lewis did in his The Four Loves) the subtle joys of Affection (Storge) or the often-neglected, sometimes scorned, virtues of Friendship (Philia) [...]
From the New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia we learn of three historical Saints Valentine, martyrs all in the second century; a bishop, a priest of Rome, and a Christian, possibly a priest, in North Africa. Medieval folk associated the Feast Day of St. Valentine, February 14, with the pairing of birds and from there with [...]
The Texas Baptist Historical Collection is a resource more Baptists should know about and take advantage of. Every year useful historical materials are lost when churches and families discard files, letters, and other records from long-term ministries and lifetimes of experience in service. These could be historically valuable–and the TBHC can help you [...]