As I have been digging through literature on male development and masculinity, I find I return to think about the concept forwarded by Eldredge and touched on by other authors: that those men who grow up with a stunted or damaged masculinity somewhere along the way were either abused or neglected in that area...
Read more →In my efforts to try and understand the meaning of being a man, I ask questions as a Christian. Because I am a Christian, I look for answers that fit within a particular cosmology that describes the purpose and meaning of life. A cosmology is a world-view or perspective that provides suggestions as to...
Read more →Recently, I’ve returned to the question of what it means to be a man (and equally, what it means for a woman to be a woman), and so I decided I needed to skim the books in my library on the topic and in each, pull the salient points they offer about Biblical manhood...
Read more →There are so many good country songs coming out right now. I love Keith’s blown-out guitar work and the striding rhythm behind the lyrics here. Catchy and cool song.
Read more →Well, it’s been three days now since I have seen the turtledove parents, and talking to Tim this morning, he suspects something spooked the adults and they have abandoned the nest- and the two eggs. It got down to 45 degrees last night, and without cover, I wonder about the viability of the eggs....
Read more →I’m not really sure how to fit this into the 12 Days of Christmas tune, but it appears God has given me some guests to watch. Over the last month or so, two turtledoves decided to take over the abandoned veggie tray that sits on the table on the grill in my backyard. I...
Read more →Sad to say it, but this excellent 80’s song comes to mind when I hear all of Pyongyang’s sabre-rattling from North Korea. Provoke a cobra long enough, and odds are you will probably get bit. May things not come to that. The song...
Read more →I knew today was coming, but I tried to keep the mental images of what I thought would happen at bay for a while. Well, today I found out how it would go. For several weeks now, I and two friends from my church small group have talked about getting together to play basketball...
Read more →The hard part for me about having this blog and writing things to it is that I am honest. I want to be an honest person. And I want to write honest things. But, unfortunately, I am also a pretty subjective person. I want to write a bit about my own life- my own...
Read more →Today is Easter Sunday, which as a Christian I celebrate for the resurrection of Jesus, the foundational assertion and centerpiece of my faith- that God sent His Son into the world to die as a sacrifice for human sin, so that in His resurrection from the dead, Death would be dealt a mortal blow...
Read more →I think I’ve started six blog posts in the last month, and all of them with great seed ideas, but as I’ve tried to work through them, tapping ideas out onto the screen, the ideas have just wilted and died. I don’t know if this is writer’s block, or more broadly, just an alive-r’s...
Read more →There is definitely Midwestern blood in me. The first time I heard this song, I was pulled in by the lyrics, and I thought, yeah- I love what I’ve experienced of these places and spaces. Yawning skies and forever fields, flat far as you can see, the smell of the earth, of soil and...
Read more →It’s St. Patrick’s Day? Spring is awakening? What better time then for a Corrs tune- and a love song at that. One of my favorites ever.
Read more →I don’t know how long it has been since I have posted something here I’ve written. I suppose I could look it up, but then again, we’ll all soon know when this is posted and it takes its place on the index page. All I know is that it’s been a while, and that...
Read more →Every time I hear a Blake Shelton song, I am inevitably caught by some hook in the musical phrasing- either by some catchy instrumental arrangement, or a comfortable cadence in the song, and as a dancing fool, I end up really liking it. This song is no different. It just rolls along, slow and...
Read more →I’m not a huge Taylor Swift fan, but after hearing the music and then listening to the lyrics of this song, I thought it was post-worthy. It’s a gift to realize you can love- and be loved- once more when you’ve loved before, and that love was ignored or taken for granted. It’s a...
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