Columns
Rewards
Are Worth the Risk
11-20-09
"Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base
and keep your foot on first," Frederick Wilcox's most famous quote on winning...
Thinking
a Paramount Necessity
11-8-09
Former CIA analyst and distinguished scholar, Chalmers Johnson,
has recently completed a trilogy on the economic and military overreach of the
United States. The title of the third book is "Nemesis: The Last Days of the American
Republic."
Women:
Third Class Humans? or Hypatia's Daughters 10-22-09
Who
or what was Hypatia? A new drug? A bug from Bolivia? It turns out Hypatia was
not a "thing" but a woman. But not just any woman. She was a teacher in a time
when women did not dare teach men...
Chicken
Fried Steak: An Unbiased Recommendation 10-4-09
One
thing I have tired to do through the years is to visit Underwood's Bar-B-Q when
near Brownwood. Pity the poor traveler who is in Brownwood on a Wednesday...
"Give
me your tired, your poor..." 9-18-09
The West Coast
has no Statue of Liberty. We once had laws that kept Asians out for a very long
time. No great poems of hopes and dreams have ever been posted on the Rio Grande,
El Paso, Nogales, or Tijuana.
Mark
Twain's War Prayer Revisited
9-5-09
Mark Twain in March, 1905, was outraged by the American military
invasion of the Philipines. So he wrote "The War Prayer" and sent it to Harper's
Bazaar. It wasn't published until after his death. It appeared in Harper's Monthly,
November, 1916.
Waco
Mammoth Site Nearing National Monument Status
8-24-09
This is the world's largest known concentration
of prehistoric mammoths perishing...
Support
Your Local Newspaper
8-6-09
This month the Waco Tribune-Herald has followed in the footsteps
of the San Angelo Standard-Times and numbers of newspapers around the country.
On Finding a Good Book Title
7-25-09
When looking to write a book, of all the problems and headaches
involved none is more pronounced than finding a great title...
If
It was a Fable, Let It Continue 7-12-09
There
was a certain pride of station when I wore the maroon uniform of a Lyric Theater
usher. That was a time when theater ushers actually helped people find a seat
during the film...
"Along
the Way with Britt" Column begins July 2009 | Britt
ToweryBritt
Towery was born in Brownwood, Texas, son of the best barber in Texas; graduated
from Howard Payne University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Studied
television writing and production at New York University summer institute. Advisor
on two documentaries: "Winter is Past," and "China Walls and Bridges," which won
an Emmy for documentary, 1988-89.
Pastor of Baptist churches in Texas
and founded the First Baptist Church of San Manuel, Arizona. Later in Taiwan formed
the Pingtung Baptist Church. Both churches still going strong after fifty years.
Guest professor at Houston Baptist, Baylor and Howard Payne Universities and Southwestern
Seminary. Built bridges of understanding between the Protestant churches of China
with American and Western churches and placing English and health personnel with
China schools and institutions, 1982-92. Howard Payne granted Britt an Honorary
Doctor of Humanities degree in 2002. He and his wife are active in the First Presbyterian
Church in San Angelo, Texas.
Britt writes a weekly column for the Brownwood
Bulletin and the San Angelo Standard-Times. Jody and Britt have two adopted daughters
and three grandsons.
July,
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