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With his death approaching, Richard Milwee, the former archdeacon of the Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas, approached a longtime friend and fellow priest, Christoph Keller III, about the message Keller would deliver at the funeral. ....
In retirement, I have been working on a small collection of homilies from funerals titled "Getting on Toward Home." The title draws from Donald Harington's "The Choiring of the Trees," where Ozark house guests, standing up to leave, will say, "I'd like to stay, but best be gittin' on down home." ....
Cubs complete three-game sweep of Pirates Field Level Media 28 May 2021, 06:05 GMT+10 Kris Bryant and Patrick Wisdom homered and Javy Baez picked up an RBI on a bizarre play Thursday as the visiting Chicago Cubs bested the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-3 for a three-game sweep. Ian Happ added an RBI single for the Cubs. Chicago starter Kyle Hendricks (5-4) pitched seven innings, allowing three runs and six hits, with no walks and five strikeouts. Ryan Tepera got the final four outs for his first save. Bryan Reynolds, Gregory Polanco and Michael Perez homered for the Pirates, who have lost six straight. Pittsburgh starter Tyler Anderson (3-5) gave up four hits and four runs, three earned, in five innings, with one walk and four strikeouts. ....
4:00 Such a mass of material must of course be arranged, somehow. Not all films get or deserve equal time. A good deal of the book is arranged by state, but Beard begins with chapters on “Birth of a Nation” and “Gone with the Wind,” two powerful films that set the South in the minds of millions of Americans, for better or worse. Choose worse. “The Birth of a Nation” is the first important American film for its technique and brio, but also for its politics and lies,” Beard tells us. The film depicts a Reconstruction of “Black corruption, Black suppression of the white voice….” “Black Union soldiers are murderous gangsters and rapists.…” Black elected officials are “drunks, clowns and dandies, right out of the minstrel tradition.” The KKK rides to the rescue. ....