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Frat Brother’s Reminder Humbles the Man Once Known as Chilly Billy
Chilly Billy with his frat brothers in The Grove at the Sigma Chi Alumni Tent at Ole Miss in Oxford. Photo by The Delta Bohemian By...
Bad Information
By Pontificus Minimus “The visions of your prophets were false and worthless; they did not expose your sin to ward off your captivity. The oracles they gave you were false...
A Fathers Lament
Pontificus Minimus Opines: A lament is an expression of grief or sorrow. Now, there are LAMENTS and then there are laments: this is a lament. What is the difference? What...
Taming the Mississippi River: A God-Given Mandate?
Cows grazing on top of an next to the Mississippi River Levee near Friars Point, MS during the Mississippi River Flood of 2011. Photo by The...
Water Matters
This is the closest to flying I'll ever get. A squirrel's eye view of the big basket Oak on the Low Road. May 11 Mississippi River...
Mattie Louise Mattered
By PONTIFICUS MINIMUS and POOR WILLIAM The following eulogy was given at the lads’ maternal grandmother’s funeral on October 6, 1996. She was a grand and classy dame--the finest of...
God is in Gardens
By PONTIFICUS MINIMUS Gardens and gardening reflect God’s creative and redemptive power. Many a pastoral life’s non-encumbrances include outside air, sunshine, the smell of soil, time for reflection, and the...
Physical Training versus Godliness
By PONTIFICUS MINIMUS In the Apostle Paul’s first epistle to his protégé Timothy, he writes: “For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding...
Northern Humanists and Delta Bohemians
By PONTIFICUS MINIMUS Pontificus believes the Renaissance was not completely antithetical to Christianity. Though hard to pinpoint its inception, the era loosely began in the 14th century and lasted for...
Even Fish Can Get Along, Sometimes
By PONTIFICUS MINIMUS Seven tanks and a backyard pond qualify and quantify Pontificus as something of an ichthyologist. He first was turned onto fish when his mom bought him a...
The Hallmark of a Christian Ain’t What You Think
By Pontificus Minimus (Clarksdale, Mississippi) What say ye Pontificus? The hallmark of a Christian? Elaborate kind sir! Well, Pontificus had a professor in Bible College who repeatedly said the hallmark...
Martha’s Benediction
By Pontificus Minimus“Lean on your love for God, lean on your love for Beth, and always, always, have a good sense of humor!” -- Martha Johnson These timely words were...