I am an ecumenical guy, especially regarding Christianity and Judaism—from which sprang the Wonderful Counselor, the Bread of Life, the Lamb of God. Interfaith dialogue and finding common ground here are all well and good. But when it comes to...
My friend Dex’s knowledge of sports, especially baseball, is deep and wide. If I ask his opinion of the fictional pitcher Stanislov Wiśniewski, he can tell me without checking Baseball Reference or the Society for American Baseball Research that...
Christendom, alas, has seldom if ever been uniform. Well before Rome and Byzantium split and long after Martin Luther instigated the Protestant Reformation, there have been schisms and ruptures both big and small. Sometimes, we may fairly wonder...
The process by which the all-black Prairie View Interscholastic League was absorbed by the all-White University Interscholastic League began in 1964 and was completed six years later. Texans on both sides of the divide had their own reasons for...
I had decided well in advance of the 2016 Seoul International Marathon that it was time to retire from this form of athletic competition. Although I had always leaned toward the what’s-the-least-I-can-do-and-still-be-ready-on-race-day approach, I...
Few people in Korea aspire to live in goshiwons, small but cheap dwelling places. Room 23 of the Yeoksam Single Livingtel has been my goshiwon since late November 2023. Just the other day, I was sitting there, listening to music (Josh Snodgrass’s...
The Spring 1975 semester was not an especially happy time for me. I was a senior at the University of Texas with the haziest of post-graduation plans. There were girlfriend problems. I was living in a two-story apartment complex at the...
Donald Trump is no doubt the greatest American president in my lifetime. I voted for him and am hard-pressed to name a single one of his policies with which I disagree. Oh, sometimes I cringe at his style or the things he says or does...
Darrell Royal has been underground since 2012. He is buried along with his faithful wife, Lois, in Statesman’s Meadow, section 2(G), row B, number 19 at Texas State Cemetery in Austin. If he were still alive, he would probably ask, “Why is...
They were known as the “3 M’s,” a trio of guards who scored prolifically (before the three-point line) in the 1968, 1969 and 1970 college basketball seasons. I will start with Rick Mount of Purdue. In 72 games for the Boilermakers, he racked up...
I underwent arthroscopic surgery on one of my knees to repair a torn meniscus at Yonsei Severance Hospital in 2012. I do not remember the name of the doctor, the month, or whether it was my right or left knee, but the other had been done in...
phobia [foh-bee-uh] / ˈfoʊ bi ə / noun 1. an intense, persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, situation or person that manifests in physical symptoms such as sweating, trembling, rapid heartbeat or shortness of breath, and...
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