Noted by Chaplain Mike. MOD Note: Many readers are contributing links to other tributes in the comments. Thank you! I encourage you to peruse the comments as well as this list. Here is a partial list of remembrances and tributes to Michael Spencer that are appearing around the web: Will Adair Matthew Lee Anderson (FirstContinue reading “Tributes to the Internet Monk”
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Now in Another Wilderness
By Chaplain Mike. I had been wandering in the post-evangelical wilderness for a long time. But I never knew what to call it until I began reading Michael Spencer. And I never knew a genuinely safe place to talk about it until I entered the discussions on Internet Monk. Then I knew I had foundContinue reading “Now in Another Wilderness”
Mourning the Passing of a Friend — Some Thoughts
Today’s post is by IM First Officer Michael Bell. It was my birthday today, April 5th. Easter Monday. It will be a day that I will now forever remember for two reasons, for my friend Michael Spencer, also passed away today. I mourn for a friend, whose passing will leave a hole in my life,Continue reading “Mourning the Passing of a Friend — Some Thoughts”
In Memoriam
Dennis Michael Spencer of Oneida, Kentucky died at home on April 5, 2010 after a four-month struggle with cancer. He was 53. Spencer was born September 16, 1956 in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. He graduated from Kentucky Wesleyan College in Owensboro, Kentucky and The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. Spencer served as youth minister and pastorContinue reading “In Memoriam”
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Michael Spencer, 1956-2010
I received word tonight that Michael Spencer, the Internet Monk, our friend, passed away in his home in Oneida, KY, in the presence of his family. With them, we mourn his passing. With them, our tears fall. With them, we express gratitude that Michael is at peace and no longer suffering. With them, we cryContinue reading “Michael Spencer, 1956-2010”
Weird Uncle Harry — the Music Video
By Chaplain Mike. Warning: Many of you won’t have the stomach to watch more than a few minutes of this. One thing I have always appreciated about Michael is his courage to point out “Christian” craziness and call it for what it is. Some people object to that kind of truth-telling, thinking it is somehowContinue reading “Weird Uncle Harry — the Music Video”
Open Mic: A Sad but Necessary Discussion
By Chaplain Mike. The Roman Catholic Church is having a nightmare, and can’t wake up. No longer can the clergy sexual abuse problem be passed off as “an American problem.†Recent developments in Ireland, Germany, and Italy have gotten the world’s attention and criticism has risen to a new level, even to the point whereContinue reading “Open Mic: A Sad but Necessary Discussion”
Easter Is a Season, Not a Day
By Chaplain Mike. Many of us in our Christian traditions learned to celebrate Christ’s resurrection on a day — Easter Sunday. Easter is the great Lord’s Day, the climax of Holy Week, the high point of the Christian Year, marked by an explosion of color, wafting fragrance of lilies, majestic sounds of organ and baroqueContinue reading “Easter Is a Season, Not a Day”
N.T. Wright on the Significance of the Resurrection
Posted by Chaplain Mike. N.T. Wright speaks of the resurrection as the beginning of the new creation. History matters because human beings matter; human beings matter because creation matters; creation matters because the creator matters. And the creator, according to some of the most ancient Jewish beliefs, grieved so much over creation gone wrong, overContinue reading “N.T. Wright on the Significance of the Resurrection”
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