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In August, my friend John Barnett was gracious enough to shoot engagement photos of Abby and me somewhere in the midst of shooting a wedding in Raleigh, driving back to Greenville, being with other friends, and catching a plane back to Tulsa.

The OED lists the following words derived from newspaper: [Read more »]

I hope to study the jeremiad in American religious, political, and cultural life. Thus, when I come across jeremiads in my other research, I take note. I found this passage tonight while researching for my thesis. [Read more »]

Last Thursday, Lincoln and I, along with Kellen and Anna Beth, went to the Greenville Wedding Festival at the Palmetto Expo Center/Carolina First Center. We got lots of brochures and information about a lot of stuff that we didn’t really need info about, but it was fun to look. Although Anna Beth and I registered for lots and lots of door prizes, we left before the drawings occurred. The boys had fun sampling the caterers’ foods.

Even though most of our time was spent just looking, we did put a deposit down on tuxedos from Men’s Wearhouse. Overall, the Wedding Festival was a fun experience. :)

Tonight Abby and I were in Walmart. We passed a gentleman whom I had seen at BJU but had never met before. He stopped us, we made introductions all around, and we talked for just a few moments—all because he recognized us from our blog. This is but another proof of the two truisms about the Internet: that the Internet is useful for communication, and that everything put on the Internet is completely public.

• Streaming video from the Washington Post
• Streaming audio from the Armed Services Committee

The testimony before the joint Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees starts at 12:30 p.m. EDT.

For the convenience of my readers, to this point I’ve left commenting mostly open on my blog. In other words, all someone has needed to comment is a correctly formed e-mail address. This is different from some blogs where you must register and login before you can comment. My filter has done a good job blocking spam, so I’ve never needed to restrict commenting. [Read more »]