Category Archives: Saturday Brunch

Hello, friends, and welcome to the weekend. Part of this post actually came out yesterday. I apparently scheduled it for the wrong date. I’ve been feeling light-hearted this week, so most of this post is in the same vein. Hope you don’t mind my silliness. Let’s start with the sports. The NFL season got underContinue reading “Saturday Brunch, September 14, 2019”

The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: August 24, 2019 Greetings from Fort Wayne, Indiana, where I am with my young grandson for a weekend of soccer games. The weather is supposed to be ideal — highs in the 70s, with bright blue sunny skies. Last night my other grandson’s team had their first game of theContinue reading “The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: August 24, 2019”

The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: August 17, 2019 Hometown Edition The closest I have to a “hometown” is Dixon, Illinois, on the Rock River in north central Illinois. It’s really my dad’s hometown, but I spent enough time there as a child, and lived there for a few years too, that it’s where most ofContinue reading “The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: August 17, 2019 — Hometown Edition”

• Sorry to emphasize such down notes today, but, as the CNN story says, “What a horrible week for America.” This has been an objectively awful week. Far from a sleepy end to the summer, the country is reeling from mass shootings that claimed 31 lives in Texas and Ohio, not paying enough attention toContinue reading “The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: August 10, 2019 — Lament Edition”

The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: August 3, 2019 • • • Three years away…on my “want” list now • • • Joshua Harris, post-Christian From CNN: A former pastor who wrote a bestselling book on traditional relationships has confirmed the end of his marriage, apologized for opposing LGBTQ rights and announced he is no longerContinue reading “The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: August 3, 2019”

, The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: July 27, 2019 Today’s Brunch is a “politics free” zone. We had enough of that yesterday, as you can see in the action shot above, taken from yesterday’s comment section. So today, just relax, laugh, and tend your wounds. • • • No politics — well, except maybe forContinue reading “The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: July 27, 2019 — Politics free edition”

We have only one subject today… Today is the 50th anniversary of the day when human beings first stepped foot on the moon. Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins flew their spacecraft to the moon, and then Armstrong and Aldrin took the lunar lander to the surface. On July 20, 1969Continue reading “The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: July 20, 2019”

The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: July 13, 2019 — Jehu Edition “The driving is like the driving of Jehu son of Nimshi—crazy!” (2 Kings 9:20 MSG) I’ve been teaching my grandson to drive. Today I’m going to warn him against driving like Jehu. This Brunch is dedicated to King Jehu, patron saint of road rage,Continue reading “The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: July 13, 2019 — Jehu Edition”

Americans need to embrace a more mature and realistic patriotism, one that recognizes that everything is not perfect but that there is still something worth celebrating. We must learn to love America without being blind to its faults. This love must be shown not by ignoring America’s problems but by dedicating ourselves to dealing withContinue reading “The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: July 6, 2019”