Early Frost By Scott Cairns This morning the world’s white face reminds us that life intends to become serious again. And the same loud birds that all summer long annoyed us with their high attitudes and chatter silently line the gibbet of the fence a little stunned, chastened enough. They look as if they’re waitingContinue reading “Scott Cairns: Early Frost”
Yearly Archives: 2020
Not Logic but Love
Two hours into the conversation, the real question emerged: “but what about the suffering of the innocent children”? My friend and I were basking in the sunlight streaming into our favorite coffee shop, and he had been relating his recent spiritual journey. The atheism he had embraced some 8 years earlier was wearing thin. HeContinue reading “Not Logic but Love”
So Damn Tired
I’ve had a tough day. It started with my church continuing to make (what I think are) poor choices regarding the pandemic. But really it started before today: with the knowledge of not being able to see my son over Christmas and not being able to share Christmas with my parents in person for theContinue reading “So Damn Tired”
Advent I – Make Ready for Surprise
The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: November 28, 2020
The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: November 28, 2020 I don’t know about you, but I am missing traveling these days. We stayed put this Thanksgiving and had a quiet meal, just the two of us, at home. For many reasons, we felt this was the safe and wise choice. Apparently however, enough people decided itContinue reading “The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: November 28, 2020”
Gospelish – By C J Fitz – An Internet Monk Review
The past couple of weeks I have been hanging out musically at the intersection of country and folk. It is not a place I have been known to frequent, but the artistry of C J Fritz is persuading me that this might be a part of town that I want to visit more often. SoContinue reading “Gospelish – By C J Fitz – An Internet Monk Review”
thanksgiving in a year of covid
In Tove Jansson’s Moominland Midwinter, Moomintroll accidentally wakes from hibernation too early. Accustomed to sleeping through winter, he is shocked to find the world shrouded in snow, his garden entirely unfamiliar. “All the world has died while I slept,” he thinks. “It isn’t made for Moomins.” Feeling terribly lonely, he goes to the bedroom andContinue reading “thanksgiving in a year of covid”
IM Book Review: Reflections of Immanuel, by Scott Lencke
IM Book Review: Reflections of Immanuel, by Scott Lencke “Getting ready for Christmas” is commonly experienced as an uptick in the speed and frenzy of life. We rush, scurry, and get caught up in the “mall religion” around us. With grace and insight, Scott Lencke offers us a well-trodden but forgotten alternative path — theContinue reading “IM Book Review: Reflections of Immanuel, by Scott Lencke”
A River of Baptists
How about a little fun today with collective nouns? Some collective nouns are just odd: a husk of jackrabbits, a knot of toads. But the best ones combine the idea of plurality with some characteristic of the species: A wake of buzzards, a parliament of owls, or (my favorite) a lounge of lizards. But whyContinue reading “A River of Baptists”
What is an Evangelical?
I have been hanging around Internet Monk for about thirteen years now, and writing for it for almost as long. This has been a journey for me, and part of the at journey has been a movement away from Evangelicalism. Like many of our readers, it has been a journey into a “Post-Evangelical Wilderness.” ThereContinue reading “What is an Evangelical?”
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