Cataclysm in a Cheetos bag

A barnstorm tour of Texas on a soggy week in May deposited me at a treasured place: a particular tennis court, opposite a particular racquet-bearing friend. It’s where we had gathered weekly for years, the essence of effort being the sweat and not the score. And so we perspired once more, though more from the…

Baylor and the gladiators

  You’ve got to give it to Southern Baptists. When they do implosions . . .   Two, count ’em, two spectacular demolitions visited Baylor University mere days apart.   First – boom, boom, boom – the 66-year-old pillars under stoic but still highly functional Floyd Casey Stadium took lethal injection by dynamite.   And then.…

Nothing Christian about heinous discrimination

  Compassion. Compassion. Compassion.   Thumbing through the Bible, I’m looking for something about compassion.   Oh, that’s right. It’s everywhere. Start with that Golden Rule thing.   No need to cite chapter or verse to know there’s nothing Christian at all about the response attributed to conservative Christians regarding so-called bathroom bills. There’s nothing remotely…