Many more people are poor and sick because of the life of MT: Even more will be poor and sick if her example is followed. She was a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud, and a church that officially protects those who violate the innocent has given us another clear sign of where it trulyContinue reading “Mother Teresa Needs No Defending”
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Mondays with Michael Spencer: September 5, 2016
Note from CM: I love Labor Day weekend as much as any of the other holiday times during the year here in the U.S. It kicks off fall, my favorite season. It used to signal the beginning of the school year, a blank slate to be filled in, a season of new opportunity for learningContinue reading “Mondays with Michael Spencer: September 5, 2016”
Pic & Poem of the Week: September 4, 2016
(Click picture to see larger image) Loving Working Work was a shining refuge when wind sank its tooth into my mind. Everything we love is going away, drifting – but you could sweep this stretch of floor, this patio or porch, gather white stones in a bucket, rake the patch for future planting, mop theContinue reading “Pic & Poem of the Week: September 4, 2016”
Saturday Ramblings: September 3, 2016 (Labor Day Edition)
In this Labor Day edition of Saturday Ramblings, we honor the men and women who built the intrepid Nash/Rambler/AMC vehicles we feature week in and out here at Internet Monk. Here is a series of pictures from the Kenosha (Wisconsin) Historical Society we found on TheOldMotor.com in an article, “Workers on the factory floor in theContinue reading “Saturday Ramblings: September 3, 2016 (Labor Day Edition)”
Another Look: The Life God Is In
Note from CM: Today, I was at a place I hadn’t expected to be, in a situation I hadn’t anticipated and would not have sought for myself or anyone else. After my time there was over, I took a walk to clear my head, and some words came to my mind. I’m not a big oneContinue reading “Another Look: The Life God Is In”
Pete Enns: God, the Helicopter Parent. Not.
Note from CM: Thanks to Pete for allowing us to re-post this good article. I continue to be refreshed by his perspectives on the Bible and how it teaches us. • • • God Isn’t the Great Helicopter Parent in the Sky (at least that’s what the Bible says) by Peter Enns Although my threeContinue reading “Pete Enns: God, the Helicopter Parent. Not.”
Wednesdays with James: Lesson Thirteen
Wednesdays with James Lesson Thirteen: The Two Ways — Time to Choose We continue our study in the central section of the Epistle of James. In the body of this encyclical, the author takes up the three themes he introduced in chapter one, addressing them in more detail and in reverse order. The second theme James discussesContinue reading “Wednesdays with James: Lesson Thirteen”
On Pastors and Phone Calls
Interesting piece at Christianity Today, Karl Vater’s blog, called “Why Most Pastors Aren’t Answering Your Phone Calls.” Vaters notes that ministers have a reputation for not being very good at answering or returning phone calls or communications from parishioners, missionaries, and others. He then says, “It’s not because we’re lazy, disorganized or uncaring – not mostContinue reading “On Pastors and Phone Calls”
Mondays with Michael Spencer: August 29, 2016
Note from CM: While going through old posts today, I found this gem by Michael Spencer. It ties right in with what some folks were saying in the comments the other day — we Christians tend to live in our own little worlds, don’t even know it, imagine that we’re preaching in such a way that will attractContinue reading “Mondays with Michael Spencer: August 29, 2016”
Pic & Poem of the Week: August 28, 2016
(Click on picture for larger image) • • • 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 foldContinue reading “Pic & Poem of the Week: August 28, 2016”
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