Dr. Lizerbram heading prestigious Jewish fund
FPA disaster goes unmentioned
Don Bauder 4 p.m., Oct. 16
Joseph O'Brien
Joseph O’Brien was born in Freehold, NJ, and lives on a homestead with his wife and nine children in rural Soldiers Grove, WI. He is managing editor of Adoremus Bulletin, a short-story editor for Tuscany Press, Wellesley, Mass., and poetry editor and staff writer (Set 'Em Up Joe and Sheep and Goats) for the San Diego Reader, where his poetry has been published in the past. His poems also have appeared in the Kickapoo Free Press, Dappled Things, America, and Chronicles.
Articles by Joseph O'Brien
Mineral-driven tequila first, then ginger beer
Green Acre's Mexican Mule
Green Acre’s director of food and beverage Chris Simmons serves his Mexican Mule the same way as the Moscow Mule — in copper cups. While his variation on the vodka-cum-ginger-cum-lime original is served as cold ...
Found church while USIU grad student
Hell seems not on par with choices that lead us there
Point Loma's First Church of the Nazarene bloomed from a tent revival.
Shakespeare of the Arabic language
al-Hariri of Basrah
Praise be to Allah, the exalted of names, the praised for His bounties, the abundant in gifts, the called upon for the rescinding of calamity; —king of the nations, restorer of rotten bones, honorer of ...
It hurt too much to live
Fire-and-brimstone preaching never leads to sustainable change
Membership: 4000 Pastor (student ministries): Jason David Sluyter Age: 29 Born: Flagstaff, AZ Formation: Point Loma Nazarene University Years Ordained: 7 San Diego Reader: What’s your main concern as a member of the clergy, especially ...
Benjamin Franklin's notion of good works
Letter to Joseph Huey
I can only show my Gratitude for those Mercies from God, by a Readiness to help his other Children and my Brethren. For I do not think that Thanks, and Compliments, tho’ repeated Weekly, can ...
Martin Camps — from seminarian to Beat poet
Born in Tijuana, moved to Juarez, now in U.S.
Giraffe in Juarez There’s a giraffe in the central park of Ciudad Juárez. Simple as that: a towering, Upper-Case and lonely giraffe. I studied her as she gazed at the sun sinking behind the hill ...
Never opened a Bible till my 40s
Drunk driver changes Lutheran minister's life
Membership: 25 Pastor: Rigoberto Gonzalez Age: 55 Born: Sonora, Mexico Formation: Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, MO Years Ordained: 6 San Diego Reader: How long do you spend writing your sermon? Pastor Rigoberto Gonzalez: I’d say ...
Mansur al-Hallaj — Sufi mystic
Executed by Islamic authorities
I entered unannounced into Hallaj’s room one day (says Ibn Fatik); someone had been in before me. Hallaj was in prayer, and his brow pressed to the ground, he was saying: O Thou Whose closeness ...
Sycamore Den's bartender apologizes profusely
Cringe-worthiness turns to buzz-worthiness
The Stalk Market is Sycamore Den’s newest cocktail, and according to Sycamore bartender Jesse Ross, this liquor-based commodity’s success stems from a portfolio of ingredients — including acid phosphate, the same ingredient soda jerks used ...
