Memphasis > Eulogy For A Copywriter
July 7th, 2016
A LOSS FOR WORDS. We lost a good one two weeks ago. Good man. Good son and husband, father and grandfather, brother and friend. Good citizen and arts supporter. Good mentor to students and advisor to college presidents, Episcopal priests, and copywriters. Loyd Templeton was a copywriter first. He was in charge of the communications program at Rhodes – ...
Memphasis > Different But Not Less
June 30th, 2016
THIS IS MINISTRY, BABY. Sometimes we don’t see the difference we can make right where we are. Brian McLaren – pastor and celebrated theologian, activist and prolific author – was here a couple of weeks ago and he shared some thoughts about his visit in The Huffington Post: “If I were home, I’d probably be watching cable TV. I’d ...
Memphasis > Same Name, No Relation
June 23rd, 2016
THE NAME OF WHAT WE ONCE HOPED TO BE AND WHAT WE’VE ACTUALLY BECOME. Andy Holt. The late Andy Holt from Milan, a school teacher, a coach, and once the principal of what is now Campus School in Memphis, the national president of the National Education Association, and president of the University of Tennessee. His Columbia doctoral dissertation was about the ...
Memphasis > A Place To Grow
June 16th, 2016
SEEDING TOMORROW IN WEST TENNESSEE. Things grow in Hardeman County. Crops, livestock, husbandry in all its forms – and relationship grows there, too, between the wild and the tame, between an abundance of resources and their conservation, between awe and understanding. The University of Tennessee is planting something new there in fertile ground. In a place ...
Memphasis > It'll Leave A Mark
June 9th, 2016
THE MARKS WE’RE LEAVING. People were hooking up, shooting up and throwing up in the woods, on benches and in cars and right in front of children on the Greensward. Like the weeds, pretty much everywhere. Like the privet, pretty much out of control. Like the shell and the rose garden and the lake and the forest and the picnic grounds and the pride of a city, pretty ...
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