Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
If you’re an Oregonian, you may know the feeling of being in to DMV to renew license plate tags, change a vehicle title, or otherwise part with your money in one way or another. You fill out the paperwork with info and your version of John Henry. You hand over your plastic bank-in-a-wallet to pay, and . . .
“I’m sorry. We only take cash or checks.”
Oh. Right. Of course. You knew that. Great.
No more. I just saw this big, fat headline: Read it all
This evening I feel twinges of nostalgia and sadness. And perhaps a twitch of a whiff of bitterness? No, I overcame that a long time ago.
Twenty-five years ago this evening, at the Mennonite church in Santa María (Sonora, Mexico), the first national minister of that congregation was ordained.
As I recall, my Dad (James Roth) gave the charge. And as I recall, the church’s “founding father” (Joe Mast) as well as two members of BMF Missions (Merle Kropf and Wilton Smucker) were there from Oregon as well. I was the congregation’s pastor.
I continued in that role til I resigned in March or April (as I fuzzily recall) so Manuel Torres could take over. My family and I had to leave the field (in May, I think). Read it all
I started this blog as “Mark’s Views, Perhaps” and eventually retitled it “Ain’t Complicated.” Read it all
On this day, millions without natural affection (and millions of others) celebrate: enough Supreme Court “justices” figured out a woman can do what she wants with her body.
As a result of Roe v Wade, a girl or a woman in the United States may legally…
It’s her body, after all. Read it all
“In the beginning, God created heaven and earth, which beginning of time, according to this chronology, occurred at the beginning of the night which preceded the 23rd of October in the year 710 of the Julian period.”
In the right margin of the page, Ussher computes the date in “Christian” time as 4004 B.C.
Get the scoop here: The Annals of the World.
I understand he was a meticulous documenter of his calculations…
Do I personally believe God began Creation 6018 years ago tonight? Read it all
August 6, 1945 — I’m surprised at how little I saw it mentioned today. Twice, as I recall. Do you remember its significance in history? If not, I don’t suppose Little Boy constitutes much of a hint.
Here are two excerpts from the first mention I saw:
There he met a Lutheran minister, Yamauchi, who explained the Scripture to him.
Across the ocean, a Lutheran chaplain prayed over the crew of the Enola Gay before it lifted into the air carrying the atomic bomb named Little Boy which destroyed Hiroshima.
Here we are at our reception in Harrisburg, Oregon:
Here we are after exiting the ceremony at Harrisburg Mennonite Church: Read it all