Last Thursday I drove to Omaha, Nebraska to hear Frank Schaeffer, author of Crazy for God and lots of other really great books dealing with the crazier end of the Christianity spectrum, speak. He did not disappoint. You can hear his talk at this link. If you start at about eleven minutes you can skip the introductions, although the minister of the church where Frank talked does give a brief, but interesting account of his own visit to L’Abri, the [...]
I was introduced to the writing of Frank Schaeffer via his book Crazy For God several years ago. I loved the book and wrote about it here. On that post, a reader left a comment asking me if I had read any of Schaeffer’s fiction books. I had not and I tucked that comment away in my brain in hopes that someday it would resurface at just the exactly right moment when I was in need of a new book [...]
We hosted Thanksgiving this year. Twenty-seven of my husband’s closest relatives stayed at our house for four days. We went hiking and played board games and watched ballgames and went to the movies and The Oracle Known as Steve staged a coup and tried to take over my kitchen, but I bravely fended him off with a carving knife, a rusty old egg beater and a very pokey meat thermometer. And yet, even as he bled out from oozing puncture [...]
Because the Christmas tree photo was getting a wee bit tiresome.
With mincing alacrity, Dear Charles takes on Lee Strobel’s “The Case for Christ” and startling questions arise!!!
On Anxiety…..
Grandpa Harry – Jack, are you a little anxious about opening your Christmas presents?
Jack – I don’t know what anxious means.
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On Indigestion….
Me – Do any of your patients ever complain about burping or farting all the time?
CD – Yes…
Me – What do you do for them?
CD – I can’t do anything for them.
Me – What do you mean you can’t do anything?
CD – There’s nothing that can be done.
Me – Sure there is! You can tell them to watch what they eat! You could tell them to eat less! You could give them some medicine!
CD – Yes, I could give them some $100.00 medicine that won’t work. I can tell them to eat less or eat better, but they already know that.
Me – I think you just like telling people that nothing can be done. I think you just like making people feel powerless.
CD – Rechelle. I don’t know how to make people stop farting.
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On High Blood Pressure…
Me – … are you telling me that a 300 pound man with high blood pressure should not change his diet?
CD – Changing his diet will not change his high blood pressure.
Me – What are you talking about? Did he have high blood pressure when he was a baby? Did he have high blood pressure when he was a skinny nine year old kid? Did he have high blood pressure when he was eighteen and running hurdles on the highschool track team?
CD – No one knows what causes high blood pressure.
Me – Well – maybe if he lost a hundred pounds he wouldn’t have it anymore.
CD – Okay… what about the 92 pound old lady who has high blood pressure? Should she lose 100 pounds too?
Me – Uh….
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