Have you had a Covid-19 project? Like many others, my project has been my back yard. Last year I had a unused corner of my yard that was in some significant shadow, so I planted some Hostas. Just two little beds, tucked away in the corner. This year I looked at those beds and saidContinue reading “Sometimes I bite off a bit more than I can chew!”
Yearly Archives: 2020
Justice without Jesus?
Justice without Jesus? We have people who have made justice their God, yet another instance of the litany of humanity’s idol worship. We have people defining justice as they see fit rather than wrestling with what Biblical justice is. And, in the end, we have people abandoning Christ. • Michael O. Emerson • • •Continue reading “Justice without Jesus?”
The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: September 12, 2020
• • • The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: September 12, 2020 • • Update on the wildfires in the west… From the NY Times: Fires continued to rage in southern Oregon, where hundreds of homes have been razed, as well as east of Salem, where two bodies have been found, and along the state’s coast.Continue reading “The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: September 12, 2020”
Reconsider Jesus – The Temptation (Mark 1:12-13)
Reconsider Jesus – A fresh look at Jesus from the Gospel of Mark A devotional commentary by Michael Spencer Compiled and Edited by: Michael Bell Table of Contents The Temptation 12 Immediately the Spirit impelled Him to go out into the wilderness. 13 And He was in the wilderness forty days being tempted by Satan;Continue reading “Reconsider Jesus – The Temptation (Mark 1:12-13)”
Francis Collins Responds to COVID Vaccine Skeptic
Francis Collins Responds to COVID Vaccine Skeptic Michael Zimmerman, the Founder and Executive Director of the The Clergy Letter Project, has written an article titled, “Why I’ll not be Taking a Covid-19 Vaccine — and I’m a Scientist.” The Clergy Letter Project is an organization that was founded to show that numerous clergy from aContinue reading “Francis Collins Responds to COVID Vaccine Skeptic”
Wednesday with Michael Spencer: A Theology of Everything
Wednesday with Michael Spencer A Theology of Everything (2004) This is a story that happened where I work, so I need to tell you some things before we can go on. Our school has thirty minutes of chapel scheduled into every school day. It’s been like that for one hundred and six years, and nothingContinue reading “Wednesday with Michael Spencer: A Theology of Everything”
Mary Oliver: Morning Poem
Morning Poem by Mary Oliver Every morning the world is created. Under the orange sticks of the sun the heaped ashes of the night turn into leaves again and fasten themselves to the high branches — and the ponds appear like black cloth on which are painted islands of summer lilies. If it is yourContinue reading “Mary Oliver: Morning Poem”
Covid-19 – Understanding R
I was thinking about this so much yesterday, that I knew I had to write it up for today’s post. (We will return in Michael Spencer’s book – Reconsider Jesus – on Friday.) This graph in a nutshell is what the experience of my home province of Ontario has been with Covid-19. You can clickContinue reading “Covid-19 – Understanding R”
Wendell Berry: …these were Heavenly
• “…these were Heavenly” by Wendell Berry The painter Harlan Hubbard said that he was painting Heaven when the places he painted merely were the Campbell or the Trimble County banks of the Ohio, or farms and hills where he had worked or roamed a house’s gable and roofline rising from a fold in theContinue reading “Wendell Berry: …these were Heavenly”
The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: Labor Day Weekend 2020 Edition
The first official Labor Day was born in a context of protest and violence… On May 11, 1894, workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company, a railroad car manufacturer near Chicago, went on strike to protest their low wages and 16-hour workdays. On June 22, members of the powerful American Railway Union joined their struggleContinue reading “The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: Labor Day Weekend 2020 Edition”
The Internet Monk Archives 