NOTE FROM CM: Though Damaris’ post is not about sports, it does address our culture of entertainment and “hyperstimulation” in which sports plays a part. As an example, having spent hours in the Super Bowl Village over the weekend, I can safely say it was a sensory extravaganza — all stimulation all the time. What’s [...]
The Best Responses to the Driscolls and Youngs
14 Jan by
By far, the most thoughtful and thorough response to all the “sex” hubbub raised by the Driscolls and Youngs and their recent books and publicity stunts comes from Matthew Lee Anderson. I became aware of his analysis when I read the article, “The Trouble with Ed Young’s Rooftop Sexperiment,” at Christianity Today. I encourage you [...]
Guest Post: Quiet Desperation
10 Jan by
NOTE FROM CM: Here is another email I received in response to the Driscoll post. This one is personal, poignant — a real challenge to the church. Having two sons in their 20′s, I often wonder how to help them deal with the kinds of issues today’s author brings to us. The author of this [...]
Virtue and the Limits of Vulnerability
9 Jan by
I received some thoughtful mail as a result of my response to Mark Driscoll’s book on marriage. Here is one of the best examples: Dear Chaplain Mike, I have just finished reading your post Top of My “Don’t Read” List. In it you mention that American culture has a strong “therapeutic ethos” and that this [...]
Daniel Jepsen on Newt Gingrich, the Religious Right, and Rank Hypocrisy
2 Jan by
NOTE FROM CM: Oh boy, another presidential election year is upon us in the good ol’ US of A! Here at Internet Monk, we don’t usually talk much about politics. It was the Apostle Paul who warned us, “Avoid the profane chatter and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge…” (1Tim 6:20). It seems to [...]
Missing Church
26 Dec by
I confess: we missed going to church yesterday on Christmas. Despite my strong opinions that churches should have services on Christmas whether it falls on Sunday or not, and that when it is on a Sunday churches should not cancel services, we didn’t make it yesterday. We had the best intentions and planned to go [...]
I’m Dreaming of a Fight This Christmas…
23 Nov by
The rumble you hear in the distance is the sound of heavy artillery. The Christmas Wars have begun. The advertisement accompanying today’s post is from the American Humanist Association. These will run on buses, billboards and in newspapers. This is AHA’s third consecutive holiday public awareness campaign to bring attention to discrimination against nonbelievers in [...]
Welcome To This World
19 Oct by
A video has been making the rounds on the Internet these days that begs a response. Before I make my comments, take time to watch this for yourself.
Open Mic: Do We Need To Vote For A Christian?
10 Oct by
I am going to say this right up front. I do not want any comments shilling for a specific candidate, or any comments that put down other candidates. Moderation (once I can get back to my computer) will be strict. Play by the rules, iMonks. Quite a dust storm has erupted from Dallas. No, as [...]
Decline And Fall
10 Oct by
There’s been a lot of discussion over the last 1500 years or so of what led to the fall of the Roman Empire and ushered in the Dark Ages. Such discussions are hard to conduct because already there are those (and I am among them) who want to point out that the eastern half of [...]
