Lone Star Parson

So what's going on in LSPland , you ask. I'll tell you, the sun shines, birds sing, and fasting continues apace. It's Lent, you ...

  After his baptism, Jesus goes out into the wilderness to fast and pray, to gain strength for his journey to Calvary and the Cross. Hating ...

  Lent's begun and with it a confrontation with reality, Remember O man that thou art dust to dust thou shall return . And with that we&...

  "It's almost that time of year, LSP, can you you help out?" asked the Rector of St. Matthias. I zeroed in, like a thermal on...

  No sooner had Stations of the Cross and the obligatory Lenten meal and class finished than it began to rain. Not heavily, but the drops we...

  This seems appropriate, right about now. Dies Irae? Day of wrath and doom impending. David's word with Sibyl's blending, Heaven an...

  From the Prayer Book: Dear People of God: The first Christians observed with great devotion the days of our Lord’s passion and resurrectio...

Whoever said life'd be easy? No one, and with that in mind I left the sylvan groves of old Texas for the concrete metrosprawl of th...

The day started off well, with strong covfefe on the porch. It moved ineluctably to guns, note health food. And now? St...

What shall it profit a man? To gain the whole world And lose his soul? Here at the Compound we hope you'...

Lent's begun and with it the invitation to enter the wilderness with Christ and commit ourselves to the spiritual battle against ev...

It's Ash Wednesday and Valentine's Day, when we celebrate a martyr, love, and mark our foreheads with an ashen cross as a sign...

Just when you thought Western religion couldn't get any gayer , along comes Glitter Ash. That's right, Glitter Ash, instead of...

Here we are again at the beginning of Lent and that's usually the Compound's cue to unleash TS Eliot's poem, Ash Wednesda...

One of the things some local Baptists do well here is a men's prayer breakfast. They meet every Friday and they're a good, st...

You wake up, it's a beautiful day and you think to yourself, "I know, I'll go to a liturgical dance!" Resist that ...

As faithful Christians were gearing up for Lenten penance, Hillary Rodham Clinton was getting a shriving in New Hampshire, handily be...

Ash Wednesday is upon us and with it a crashing reminder of our own mortality and the need to repent of past and present wickedness. So...

I know it's two days late and several dollars short, but I hope you all had a blessed and penitential Ash Wednesday and beginning o...

If you see a sportered Lee Enfield No. 1 Mk. III, with a decent bore, matching serials and good looking BSA stamp (1917), all for the p...