The heart of being a man is not to be ‘wild’, rather it is, under God, to take responsibility for his good creation. This has a two-fold dimension. It is responsibility for a job, and it is responsibility for people: for humanity’s task, and for humanity itself.
I recently wrote about conducting my first Funeral Service for a friend’s Father who had suddenly died. In the week leading up to the Funeral, each of my kids asked me various ranging from what you do at Funerals, whether being cremated (Dad - what does being “cromated” mean?) is better than being buried, and whether my friend’s Father was in now in heaven.
For Manhood to be the new black we have some work to do. On his recent visit to Australia Mark Driscoll said that Australian Christian men were the most immature Christian men he had come across. Rather than quibble let’s admit two things
The School Holidays and other things have meant that the “How Children Bless” series has lost some of its steam. Rather than try to resurrect it in some kind of token way, I’m going to call it to close and move on.
Trevor Cairney has written an excellent post extending our thinking about how we might consider the children of others as neighbours. It prompted me to think a little more about the relationship between children, parents and the community (whether it be the whole community or the Christian community).
