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UPDATE: Several of Mark’s songs are available free at the Paste Music MP3 site.
Back in the day, I was Mr. Christian Music, and kept up with everything, so I remember pretty clearly the day I bought a Mark Heard album and the guy wasn’t smiling.
Mark Heard, for those who don’t know, was probably one of […]

Some of you are asking about my views on homosexuality. I said just about everything I have to say about the topic of homosexuality in the IM essay “In The Gay Old Summertime.”
Though written several years ago when my kids were watching “Queer Eye,” it still expresses my own response to this issue as a […]

Internet Monk Radio Podcast 18. I stop spending money. Talking God with Chinese students. Praying for friends from the Psalms.

 

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What do homosexuals and the political state of Israel have in common?
Both are the subjects of a flawed approach by Christians concerned about suffering and the Christian witness. While the Christians involved are very different, their errors and resulting actions are very similar.

Internet Monk Radio Podcast 17. I start a revolution. Shane Claiborne. Blogwars. There’s more good guys than you might think.

 

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I think some of us need to hear the good news of sabbath and refreshment. Wow.
A great book from a great writer: Mark Buchanan on “The Rest of God.” It’s the finest exploration of the role of the sabbath in the life of the Christian I have ever read. Simply superb and a delight to […]

This is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the film Chariots of Fire, a remarkable movie about faith, worldviews and the motives to excel of two very different men. Chariots won Oscars for Best Picture, Writing, Score and Costumes in 1982.
I talked about Chariots of Fire on Podcast 16. I got to thinking that there might be […]

Internet Monk Radio Podcast 16. More Minor league baseball. Chinese student. Chariots of Fire. Sabbath from Church.

 

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Further UPDATE: Somehow, as usual, Phil Johnson feels the need to have some kind of last word about this post. So if you’ve been unduly influenced by my liberal rantings to love, pray for and appreciate your brothers and sisters still holding out in the mainlines, go get yourself vacuumed out real good at Phil’s […]

Mark Bertrand on watchblogging and the “either/or” assumptions of its practitioners. This post deserves wide circulation among all bloggers.
I’ve told this story before, but it bears retelling. I once had a young reformed Baptist pastor and his wife over to our home for dinner. We had mutual friends and I wanted to be able to […]

Internet Monk Radio Podcast 15. Finding God Beyond Harvard. Persecution. Church For Men. NOW AVAILABLE as an Itunes Subscription Podcast.

 

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This is my fifteenth year working at a Christian boarding school, and one constant during all of that time has been conversations about bullies. I’ve probably talked with 300 students about how to respond to a bully. I’ve probably had 50 conversations about the effect a particular bully was having on other students.
Because I was […]

UPDATE: Denise’s post of this weekend’s events.
We’d been gone from Lexington about 5 minutes when Denise started crying. “Twenty-one years I’ve been cooking for my children. That’s a big chunk of your life.”
You have such thoughts on the day you take you son to college. You stand at the crossroads, the haze lifts, and […]

Kelly Monroe Kullberg’s Finding God Beyond Harvard is several good things. It’s an account of the author’s own journey into a significant ministry that is touching the core of universities around America, while at the same time keeping her focus on the spiritual hungers and thirsts of university students. Kullberg is a gifted writer who […]

Internet Monk Radio Podcast 14. Minor League Baseball. Guilt by Association continued. Leaving/Finding a church. College Boy. Apologies.

 

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