“Keep Austin Weird!” so goes the slogan. I’m not sure what it means. But I do know there have been more than a few unusual people who called Austin home and made the city a richer place. The German sculptor Elisabet Ney would not have called herself “weird” or even “seltsam”.  She was a talented […]

On a drizzly Sunday morning last month in Medina County west of San Antonio, I found myself in an old church house with no pastor, parishioners or even a roof to keep the rain out and the gospel in. I doubt a homily has been delivered in St. Dominic’s Church in Old D’Hanis in 100 years.  The