chaucergraffitibeaglecolors - The Monday Morning Memo

As I was saying,
William Morris popularized the artistic style used in this 1914 frontispiece. Among his many other achievements, Morris founded Kelmscott Press in 1891. Kelmscott was devoted to the publishing of limited-edition, illuminated-style books. The 1896 Kelmscott edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer is considered a masterpiece of book design. I say William Morris was cool.
What do you fellows say?

“Christians ought to be celebrating constantly. We ought to be preoccupied with parties, banquets, feasts, and merriment. We ought to give ourselves over to veritable orgies of joy because we have been liberated from the fear of life and the fear of death. We ought to attract people to the church quite literally by the fun there is in being a Christian.

Unfortunately, we sometimes become somber, serious, and pompous. We fly in the face of freedom and grimly dig deeper into the trenches. In the words of Teresa of Avila, ‘From silly devotions and sour-faced saints, spare us, O Lord.'”

- Robert Hotchkins at the University of Chicago, quoted in The Ragamuffin Gospel, Brennan Manning, p. 135

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