Eagle Update: 8/19/12
From Dee at Wartburg Watch at 6pm this evening: Eagle will be discharged tomorrow on IV antibiotics and wound care to be delivered by the Visiting Nurses. He will need help with housework and meals so...
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iMonk: “Marriage = Running Wounded”
The Marriage at Cana, Vos From Michael Spencer’s classic post, On Running Wounded * * * Ask anyone who is married. We really are running wounded, and sometimes nothing seems more ridiculous than the...
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A “Biblical” View of Marriage?
NOTE FROM CM: The following article was written by Robert R. Cargill, assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Iowa; Kenneth Atkinson, associate professor of history at the...
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How I Teach My Children About Jesus
I first met Laree Lindburg at a writers’ conference six or seven years ago. We have been good friends, and even business partners, ever since. Laree, her husband, and their three boys live in a...
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A Culture War Conundrum
Ah, here’s a tricky one. According to a report by Daniella Silva of NBC News: A federal judge has found key parts of Utah’s anti-polygamy law to be unconstitutional, ruling in favor of a polygamous...
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My New Year’s Resolution – Work Life Balance (and a little more time resting...
I have have spent the last couple of days reflecting on work life balance. Or rather, my lack thereof. My apologies to those who have offered to help with Michael Spencer’s commentary on Mark. I keep...
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David Cornwell: Why Christians Have Children
Moving beyond the obvious, have you given serious thought as to why we have children? What difference does it make that we are Christian? Did you and your spouse discuss this ahead of time? What part...
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The Balance Has Tipped
Comments on this post are now closed. Thank you for a good discussion. . . . It was a good week for same-sex marriage advocates. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied petitions to review cases...
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11 Years of Same-Sex Marriage: A Canadian Perspective
In yesterday’s post Chaplain Mike asked “How do you envision your pastor, church, denomination, tradition responding to this new reality?” I have a slightly different perspective on this, as being in...
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iMonk Classic: How My Wife’s Catholicism Has Changed Me For The Better: A...
Sacra Conversazione, Fra Angelico First posted in September, 2008. I got some nice things for my 52nd birthday. A new iPod. (Blue, 4th generation Nano. Be envious.) A book of Benedictine Daily Prayer....
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How I Became an… Egalitarian
Update from CM: Comments are now closed. Update from Mike Bell: I was so disappointed with the tone and tenor of the comments, that rather than sifting through them and finding the few that actually...
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For my wife on our 36th wedding anniversary
A poem by Wendell Berry . . . OVER THE EDGE To tell a girl you loved her — my God! — that was a leap off a cliff, requiring little sense, sweet as it was. And I have loved many girls, women too, who...
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My Ancestors’ (not so great) Interaction with the Church (Part 2 – Dress Code...
Frey Family – Lois at center topMy Grandmother, Lois Grace Frey, was an extraordinary women. Her parents were pioneering missionaries to Africa with the Brethren in Christ in 1905. The Brethren in...
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Boxing Day – And Another Ancestor Story
Only 100 years ago the number of people who died from disease was staggering. In 1918 the so called “Spanish Flu” swept the world killing an estimated 50-100 million people. At that time that...
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Death Letter, part two: In love and war, all’s unfair
We continue our reflections on David W. Peters’ memoir of his experiences as a military and hospital chaplain called, Death Letter: God, Sex, and War. Peters served as a battalion chaplain in Fort...
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ECT on “Reclaiming Marriage”
Les maries sous le baldaquin, Chagall • • • UPDATE: In light of Eeyore’s insightful comment, I have added another point to my remarks. First Things has published a statement by Evangelicals and...
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Natural Law and Sexual Morality
Song of Songs, Weil Any sexual act other than one man and one woman engaging in the type of intercourse inherently capable of procreation is an unnatural sexual act. • Ronald L. Conte Jr. “May the...
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Another Look: The NT “Haustafeln”
Family procession, Augustus’ Altar of Peace, 13 BCE Note from CM: This post was originally written in 2011. Recently, I’ve been following a sermon series that has been going on in a church with which...
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Unique
Wedding, Chagall Note from CM: In this post, I will not be writing about same-sex marriages. They will be mentioned, but what I have to say is not about them. If you think SSM or other forms of...
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iMonk Classic: Running Wounded
Adam & Eve Expelled from Paradise, Chagall 1606 Every man experiences evil around him and within himself. This experience makes itself felt in the relationships between man and woman. Their union...
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