Home for Christmas

Having spent several days with Laura’s family, we are now safely back home in brown, wet–balmy even– Middle Tennessee.  We left Nashville last week with temps in the 60’s.  Lincoln County, MO had highs of about 12 Sunday and Monday.  We skirted some ice and freezing rain (fine by me) and missed snow (disappointing) only to [...]

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“Our Little Darling,” An Obituary for Carrie Louise Dorris

Our Little Darling
Obituary of Carrie Louise Dorris
The Bible Student
Vol. 2, No. 13, September 1900
“THE MOST OF FAME GOES UNDER THE GRASS WITH THE OTHER WREATHS PLACED UPON THE COFFIN.”
On Friday, May 19, 1899, our home was made brighter and happier by the birth of our little darling, Carrie Louis Dorris, but on Monday, Aug. 13, [...]

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good for the soul

You should read Mike Cope’s post on the Ex-Demoniac’s Testimony.  As I’ve come to expect from him, it is a word well-crafted in which the warp of the biblical text and the woof of his own story intersect.  The intersection makes for powerful and nourishing reading.  At one level his own story is an entree into the [...]

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It was a happy day on September 23, 1863,

in the Lipscomb household.  Margaret Lipscomb gave birth to a son.  They proudly called him Zellner Lipscomb, a fact not surprising to anyone who knew the family.  It was a proud family–even the women shared the family name with their children.  However, the happiness turned to helplessness and the sadness within nine months.  While teething [...]

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a messy blend of comfort and affliction

good evening friends,
the ice’s are safely back home.  the girls are bathed and in bed; the car is unloaded; we think we are ready to start the week.  but given the last two weeks, i cringe when the phone rings.
it has been a long two weeks.  we had time to prepare for my grandmother’s passing.  [...]

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Pop

I’ll post his obit when its available. 
Here are two photos from last Monday (Labor Day). 

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update

greetings,
a brief update on several fronts…
–I drove up to Scottsburg, Indiana Tuesday for my grandmother’s memorial service.  I’ve not blogged about her very much, but want to do so.  I’ll post my eulogy and upload a couple of my favorite pictures.  Six months shy of 98, she passed in her sleep early Saturday morning. 
–Now we [...]

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Ella May Ice, 1911-2008

This from the Louisville, KY, Courier-Journal, August 31, 2008:
SCOTTSBURG ICE, ELLA MAY, 97, died Saturday, August 30, 2008. She was a homemaker. Prior to caring for her children full time, she was a home economics teacher. She was a member of the Henryville Church of Christ. Survivors include daughters, Juanita Wood, Rosemarie Hobbs (Dale), Carol [...]

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Lorna Ice Simmons, 1951-2008

SIMMONS, Lorna Ice Age 57, passed away Saturday, July 19, 2008. She was preceded in death by her father, McGarvey “Doc” Ice. She is survived by her husband, Roger Simmons; 2 daughters, Bonnie Simmons and Monica Simmons; mother, Ella May Ice; 7 brothers and sisters: Rhoderick (Gwen) Ice, Juanita Wood, Rosemarie (Dale) Hobbs, Kromer (Mary) [...]

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Bobby, John Mark and Henri

I’ve been following John Mark’s and Bobby’s blogs concerning their divorces, and the web of emotions, of questions, of theology, and of ministry in which they find themselves.
I hurt for my wounded friends. You can look through about the last month’s worth of blogs for their respective stories (see http://www.stoned-campbelldisciple.blogspot.com/ and http://www.johnmarkhicks.wordpress.com/). They each refer [...]

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