Saturday, March 04, 2006

Mitchell Lewis: A Soldier's Lent

Army chaplain Mitchell Lewis has a blog. From a recent post:

Soldiers who have seen combat have no problem remembering their mortality. They've seen it with their eyes, touched it with their hands and inhaled it into their nostrils. For those in a combat zone, every day is Ash Wednesday; the dirt on their faces is real and not a ceremonial embellishment...

hat tip: Murdoc Online

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I wasn't as impressed with this site as I expected. Reading about Iraq from believers' viewpoints has often been moving, however.

A question, too: Lewis seems to quote something other than the King James Version in some of his blog. That leads to a question FIRST THINGS has recently raised. Is there reason for a nation to use a single authoritative translation of the Bible? Our past would say, yes.

Knowledge of the King James is certainly essential to studying much of American/English literature.