Happy Birthday, Bishop Tom -OR- Matzobrei!
December 1st: N.T. Wright's birthday and the unofficial start of the Christmas countdown. Seems appropriate. So in honor of those two events, here's a little snippet from Wright's article, What is this Word?: The Incomprehensible, Intimate Christmas Story . If you have time, read the whole thing. Highly recommended: One of the greatest journalists of the last generation, Bernard Levin, described how, when he was a small boy, a great celebrity came to visit his school. The headmaster, perhaps wanting to impress, called the young Levin to the platform in front of the whole school. The celebrity, perhaps wanting to be kind, asked the little boy what he'd had for breakfast. "Matzobrei," replied Levin. A typical central European Jewish dish, Matzobrei is made of eggs fried with matzo wafers, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Levin's immigrant mother had continued to make it even after years of living in London. To him, it was a perfectly ordinary word for a perfectly ...