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 (Editor’s note: This screed from Isaac was published in response to a Newsletter article by parishioner Don Ruthig) Isn’t that just like a human! You try to do them a favor and all they do is whine about it! It’s not my fault I can’t eat cookies. I’m just not equipped to do it. . . . → Read More: More in sorrow than …  Posted from the Newsletter on behalf of parishioner Don Ruthig The nerve of that eagle Isaac. He freely admits not eating cookies, much less cooking them, but yet has the brass to urge us parishioners to ante up five pounds each. He should have been around our house at Christmas. Then he’d know something about . . . → Read More: Brassed off with Isaac’s Cookie Walk arrogance  To my horror, I recently learned that several of our evensong aficionadi ventured out to St Stephen’s last month expecting Choral Evensong, only to be greeted by an empty carpark and a locked door. This is the most efficient way to lose a loyal following, and I humbly apologize to those of you who were . . . → Read More: We shall sing Evensong Sunday, November 6th  Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephen’s News XXII 43 It was bound to happen, of course: No sooner do I open my beak and accept a part time job writing for the parish newsletter than I get press–ganged into writing commercials about the Cookie Walk. Please don’t think I’m boasting, but I’m well aware of the fact I write pretty good advertising copy—my “come-ons” . . . → Read More: It’s time to start baking for Cookie Walk 2011 Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephen’s News XXII 42  It is likely that the passing of Steve Jobs—founder of Apple, makers of the Macintosh computer, the iMac, the iPod, the iPad, and the iPhone—has generated even more in the way of national and international attention than the death of Mother Teresa. Condolences have poured in from folks ranging from the mightiest of world leaders . . . → Read More: Sic transit gloria mundi—Apple’s Steve Jobs I’ve known more than a few clergymen in my time and not all of them have been dry old sticks. Some of them, in fact, have been the epitome of civilized and convivial company. One such was Henry Aldrich (1647–1710), a philosopher and theologian who was Vice Chancellor of Oxford University and Rector of . . . → Read More: Some clergymen can be an awful lot of fun Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephen’s News XXII 41 Some of the most terrifying words I have ever heard were uttered by a woman on a recent daily radio talk show: “I like Karl Marx,” she declared, adding emphatically, “He had some very good ideas.” It was not her declaration that she liked Marx that inspired fear—even in this post–Soviet era. Similar sentiments are . . . → Read More: Ignorance is never bliss when it is dangerous |
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