The citation for heroism for Major Bruce Crandall’s Medal of Honor (see a couple of blogs ago) highlights a peculiarl dynamic that works within a man’s soul, both in crisis charged moments and also over long periods of a man’s life as well. Consider the following words from Major Crandall’s citation:
While medical evacuation was not [...]
Entries from March 2007
March 30, 2007
Tuning forks, Iconic Men, and Masculine Resonance
March 24, 2007
Behind the Partition, Under the Veil
I was fascinated to find an article in the online Wall Street Journal’s “Houses of Worship” feature. Entitled “Prayer Behind the Partition,” it is Lucette Lagnado’s reflections on an ancient Jewish practice of segregating men and women in the meeting of the synagogue. Commenters at Mere Comments show that some variation on this practice is [...]
March 21, 2007
Men are saviors
On November 14, 1965, while I was in the middle of my first semester in college, Major Bruce Crandall was performing feats of valor in Viet Nam. Forty-one years later, on February 26, 2007, the White House held a ceremony to award the Medal of Honor to Lt. Col. Bruce Crandall. You may read the [...]
March 14, 2007
Girly-worship, Macho-worship, Godly-worship
In the wake of a men’s room that is an instrumental means for some Christians in Minnesota to fulfill the mission of their church (see the previous blog for details no one could make up if they tried, but somehow some trendy Christians pulled it off anyway), I remembered a blog by Gene Edward Veith [...]
March 11, 2007
The Gospel in the Men’s Room
NOTE CAREFULLY: In the following conversation, the words attributed to “Christ’s Family Church” are Really and Truly the words on their website, as you can confirm by going there yourself (until they decide to take them down; and after that Mother Google will still remember them). All these direct, complete, and unexpurgated statements from Christ’s [...]
