Month December 2011
A church in New Zealand has put up a billboard showing the Virgin Mary looking worriedly at a pregnancy test. This is brought to you by the same jerks that brought you this billboard last year. This church has fallen… Continue Reading →
After and incredible amount of nagging, I finally convinced (cajoled) my wife Terri into writing her first guest post for CMR. I am really proud of her! I Bake Because I Love — Terri Archbold Similar to the sentiment of… Continue Reading →
The room in the back of the clinic was quiet but Catherine’s mind was screaming. There was a baby in a jar. Arms. Leg. Fingers! There was a baby in a jar! She knew she had to get out of… Continue Reading →
Nothing, and I mean nothing celebrates the birth of the baby Jesus like a song about a dog and a German killing machine flying airplanes. I get weepy just thinking about it.
Julie Robison is a great young blogger and she’ll be guest blogging here once a week over the next month. She blogs at Corner with a View so please check her out. Here’s Julie: In this season of Advent, I’d… Continue Reading →
“I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day…” So begins a poem, a lament really, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. To us Longfellow is a guy we read in a textbook in high school. I don’t even know if they read him… Continue Reading →
This is pretty amazing. A paralympian, who has reportedly been paralyzed since 13 years of age, is out training as a hand cyclist when she crashes. The crash somehow cures her paralysis. I’m not making this up. Check it out…. Continue Reading →
So as you know, I occasionally write here at CMR about running and triathlon training. For me, endurance training has many connections to the spiritual life. As such, I like to write about it sometimes. However… Matthew has made it… Continue Reading →
It’s time for the annual showing of one of the greatest Christmas specials of all time. This always cracks me up. CMR brother in law Pat Shay tells the second greatest Christmas story…evah! (The birth of Christ is number one… Continue Reading →
Viability. Madeline Mann, former blob of tissue, was born weighing only 9.9 ounces. You read that right, a little over half of one pound. She weighed less than a burger at Applebees. She was certainly not viable and her potential… Continue Reading →