A Moment with Frederick Buechner “The Church as Noah’s Ark” NAVE The nave is the central part of the church from the main front to the chancel. It’s the part where the laity sit and in great Gothic churches is sometimes separated from the choir and clergy by a screen. It takes its name from [...]
About Chaplain Mike
Chaplain Mike works with a hospice organization in central Indiana. He has been in pastoral ministry since 1978, serving in churches in Maryland, Vermont, Illinois, and Indiana before moving into chaplaincy work. He is married to a wonderful gifted wife, Gail, and they have four children and three grandchildren. He thinks baseball is the greatest game ever invented, suffers annually as a Chicago Cubs fan, and is looking forward to putting on a cap again this spring to coach his grandson's Little League team. He loves a wide variety of music, spends way too much money on books, is happy to live in a place where there are four seasons, and is a "true believer" in Apple computers, having used them since 1988. Luther is his favorite theologian, Bach his favorite composer, James Taylor his favorite singer-songwriter, Chicago his favorite city, and hiking his favorite form of exercise. He would love to do more with photography and dreams of having a place in the mountains of Arizona some day. His heart has been captured by the grace of God in Jesus Christ and considers himself a post-evangelical disciple seeking a Jesus-shaped life and hoping to help the church do the same. He is forever grateful to his friend, Michael Spencer, for giving him an opportunity to write for Internet Monk.
a fleeting thought…
10 Feb by
friday, february 10, 2012 we wrangle about the end of the world and its beginning too but when YHWH comes in the whirlwind shut up, we haven’t a clue
Discernment and Decision Making in the Call to Ministry
9 Feb by
As I make my way through the process of ordination in my denomination, I have been asked to do some reading about vocation and calling in preparation for various meetings. The following is from a small book given to ministerial candidates called, “What Shall I Say? Discerning God’s Call to Ministry.” These paragraphs describe one [...]
Must Read: Men’s Responses to Piper at Rachel Held Evans
8 Feb by
In the light of John Piper’s recent assertion that “God gave Christianity a masculine feel,” our friend Rachel Held Evans challenged men to respond by sending her posts that celebrate women and their full equality and partnership in the Church. Rachel published the results today, in “God Is Not Ashamed” – Our Brothers Speak Out”. [...]
a fleeting thought…
8 Feb by
wednesday, february 8, 2012 i drove awhile under the orange glow of urban night it made me wonder… what will become of a world in which children have never seen the stars?
a fleeting thought…
7 Feb by
tuesday, february 7, 2012 i drove through the drive-thru, like you do the girl smiled and said, “have a wonderful day” and i said, “do you really mean that, or are you just toying with my heart?”
Ambiguity in Scripture
7 Feb by
The Bible, through a Scientist’s Eyes, part four Testing Scripture: A Scientist Explores the Bible by John Polkinghorne • • • To my ears, one of the most bizarre and troubling passages in the Hebrew Bible describes the “bitter water” ritual (Numbers 5:11-31). This ceremony was to be used when a man suspected his pregnant [...]
Adam McHugh on “A Matter of Motivation”
6 Feb by
Note from CM: I have been asking Adam McHugh to write a post for us for awhile, but he has been busy working on his new book. However, he recently sent me a note and said he had something, for which I’m grateful. His fine work on introversion has come to the forefront again through [...]
a fleeting thought…
6 Feb by
monday, february 6, 2012… jesus told a story about a samaritan who loved his neighbor, really and truly the pharisees said, “yeah, but he was still a samaritan.” and jesus said, “so what?”
