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- Mon May 20, 2024 5:02 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: War in Gaza
- Replies: 519
- Views: 86817
Re: War in Gaza
I don't believe there is equivalence between Israel and Hamas. The president has been routinely accused of being too hard on Israel in the current conflict, but today he came out strongly against the idea that Israeli leaders are terrorists who should be tried for crimes, something the ICC apparentl...
- Mon May 20, 2024 11:10 am
- Forum: History
- Topic: MennoNet and Genealogy
- Replies: 35
- Views: 701
Re: MennoNet and Genealogy
Poor mike. He's gonna need therapy knowing that 8-) On a serious note, my wife was 7th cousins to her own maternal grandfather. I wouldn't have expected that close of a connection given my lineage is Amish and presumably OJ's is Mennonite. Must have been some crossover at some point? That's a resul...
- Mon May 20, 2024 7:58 am
- Forum: History
- Topic: MennoNet and Genealogy
- Replies: 35
- Views: 701
Re: MennoNet and Genealogy
Mike and I are fourth cousins once removed, fifth cousins once removed, fifth cousins twice removed, and sixth cousins once removed, depending on which branch you look at. Poor mike. He's gonna need therapy knowing that 8-) On a serious note, my wife was 7th cousins to her own maternal grandfather....
- Sat May 18, 2024 7:16 pm
- Forum: Other
- Topic: Thinking about shaving my head... sort of...
- Replies: 22
- Views: 584
Re: Thinking about shaving my head... sort of...
I'm getting grey and I am developing a bald spot (my barber tells me it is just "thinning"). Not thinking of going the razor skin head look, but the clippers on either a #2 guard or no guard at all. I'm on the upper end of my mid-40's so I think I'm old enough to make such a decision. I'm...
- Fri May 17, 2024 2:36 pm
- Forum: Other
- Topic: Calling all car buffs!
- Replies: 20
- Views: 473
Re: Calling all car buffs!
I know how this part smells.
- Fri May 17, 2024 7:37 am
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Church Government Models
- Replies: 33
- Views: 954
Re: Church Government Models
Models are just models. North Korea, China and the Soviet Union are/were democratic republics, at least on paper. What counts is the internal relationships. All models can be subverted into unhealthy tyrannies. Correct. What we are looking at in this thread is functional governance. From that persp...
- Thu May 16, 2024 6:11 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Cream Cheese Recall
- Replies: 1
- Views: 114
Re: Cream Cheese Recall
surely must have something to do with raw milk somehow
- Thu May 16, 2024 4:20 pm
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Church Government Models
- Replies: 33
- Views: 954
Re: Church Government Models
I don't know which model would describe conservative Mennonites. In some ways, since the leaders are chosen from among the church membership, they are representative, but not really, because once ordained, there is no further formal mechanism for the membership to inform the leadership. Because lea...
- Thu May 16, 2024 3:43 pm
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Church Government Models
- Replies: 33
- Views: 954
Re: Church Government Models
I know women don't serve in leadership positions in most/all? CM churches. But do women typically participate in congregational decision-making that involves voting? I honestly don't know the answer so I'm asking. The correct word for an organization run by men is "patriarchy" which might...
- Thu May 16, 2024 2:44 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Is Biden Fit to be President?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 1634
Re: Is Biden Fit to be President?
Yesterday Biden delivered remarks at the National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service at the US Capitol. One of his lies comments was “When my son Beau, who spent a year in Iraq, came home with stage four glioblastoma and was gonna die”. All except Beau Biden came home from Iraq in September 2009. And...