KG Applegate

[KG Applegate @SPTSo]

Twitter ...
Tweeting ...
Ephemeral ...
Fleeting ...

[KG Applegate @SPTSo]

Every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill made low, and the crooked straight, and the rough places plain. The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it!
—Adapted from Isaiah 40:4-5 KJV

From my family to yours,
Merry Christmas!

[KG Applegate @SPTSo]

Veni, veni Emmanuel!
Captivum solve Israel!
Qui gemit in exilio,
Privatus Dei Filio,
Gaude, gaude, Emmanuel
nascetur pro te, Israel.
—ancient Christmas hymn

#Advent

[KG Applegate @SPTSo]

“Originality is overrated, except by people who have it. It’s like an untamed, ungrateful beast you’re trapped with. If people praising you knew the half of it, they’d think twice.“
—Peter #Schjeldahl, in “The Art of Dying,” in the New Yorker

[KG Applegate @SPTSo]

Happy #90th Birthday to one of the all-time greats! We’re celebrating all week. We love you!

[KG Applegate @SPTSo]

Non ex virili semine
Sed mystico spiramine
Verbum Dei factum caro
Fructusque ventris floruit.

Egressus ejus a Patre
Regressus ejus ad Patrem
Excursus usque ad inferos
Recursus ad sedem Dei.

—St Ambrose, from “Veni redemptor gentium”

#Advent

[KG Applegate @SPTSo]

“Deliver me from solemnity.”
—Laurance #Wieder, from the poem “Orientalia” in his forthcoming book “A Look Ahead”

// #Amen!

[KG Applegate @SPTSo]

Larry W. Hurtado,
(@LarryWHurtado)
thought-provoking Neutestamentler,
Yankee-turned-Brit,
by all accounts a kind, Christian scholar,
Requiescat in pace.

[KG Applegate @SPTSo]

On earth I had great riches
Land, houses, great treasure, horses, money and gold.
But now a wretched captive am I,
Deep in the ground, lo here I lie.
My beauty great, is all quite gone,
My flesh is wasted to the bone.
—Inscription on the tomb of Edward, the Black Prince (d. 1376)

[KG Applegate @SPTSo]

Visit the
@GilcreaseMuseum,
where the #AmericanWest comes alive! [Part 2]

[KG Applegate @SPTSo]

“Much is left unsaid, taken for granted. As belated readers of the [Pauline] letters, we are left to imagine how the gaps should be filled in.”
—Richard Hays, from “The Moral Vision of the New Testament”

#RichardHays

[KG Applegate @SPTSo]

Where shall the word be found, where will the word
Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
—TS Eliot, from “Ash Wednesday”

[KG Applegate @SPTSo]

Visit the @GilcreaseMuseum, where the #AmericanWest comes alive! [Part 1]

(Stay for the #DorotheaLange and #BobDylan exhibits!)

[KG Applegate @SPTSo]

You who by the light of nature moves in us the desire for the light of grace so that by it You may bring us over into the light of glory—I thank You Creator Lord, because You have made me delight in Your handiwork.
—prayer in Kepler's "Harmonices Mundi" after he proved his 3d Law

[KG Applegate @SPTSo]

“He couldn’t tell the truth if he were standing in it!”
—my grandfather’s quip about a man who habitually lied

[KG Applegate @SPTSo]

“No society can exist without some means for restraining individual rapacity. ... This is really what was meant by “self-government.” ... It referred to the capacity of each individual to restrain and govern themselves.”
—Wm. Barr, in remarks given at the University of Notre Dame

[KG Applegate @SPTSo]

Coconut Creme Pie: A Love Story.

[KG Applegate @SPTSo]

New #books!
(I know, I know ... I’m a bit behind on these, but they will be useful to own, and not just to borrow.)
#FrancisWatson
#MichaelWolter

[KG Applegate @SPTSo]

Pro captu lectoris habent sua fata libelli.
—Terentianus Maurus (fl. ca. AD 200), from his “De Syllabis”

TRANSLATION: According to the reader’s capacity do #books have their #destiny.

[KG Applegate @SPTSo]

The @Philbrook, a #Tulsa treasure!
(Part 2)