Comments on: A Calendar is a Moral Document

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By: When Time Isn’t Money

When Time Isn’t Money — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:07:13 +0000

[...] former college professor and friend on facebook shared a blog posting entitled, A Calendar is a Moral Document. Its author asserts that your calendar reveals what’s most important to you. How you spend [...]

By: China Tour

China Tour — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:11:01 +0000

Perfect – Just what I was looking for. Thanks for showing this!

By: annepriestley

annepriestley — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 05:09:51 +0000

Glad that it is useful. Please attribute as is conventional and appropriate. And I hope your project goes well.

By: jdegroot

jdegroot — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:08:50 +0000

This is one of the most profound statements I've read in a long time. I'd like to use it in a book we are writing. Should I attribute it to you?

By: Wallis on Fathers Day « Toddlers and Scholars

Wallis on Fathers Day « Toddlers and Scholars — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:00:01 +0000

[...] Fathers Day Posted by davelisaswartz under Uncategorized Leave a Comment Here’s a nice essay by Jim Wallis on Father’s Day. [...]

By: A Calendar is a Moral Document « notes from graceland

A Calendar is a Moral Document « notes from graceland — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:44:18 +0000

[...] “Dad, could we go to the field and practice a little more pitching?” Our Astros Little League baseball team had just won the Northwest Washington, D.C. championship game in the last inning. The kids and parents were all excited, and we had just finished the big post-game and end-of-season party at our house — passing out both trophies and pizza. Everyone else had gone home, and Luke, my son and dependable clean-up hitter and pitcher, wanted a little more baseball. “Sure,” I said with a smile. “Let’s go!” What else can a coach, and a dad, say? READ MORE [...]

By: “A [family] calendar is a moral document” «

“A [family] calendar is a moral document” « — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:26:29 +0000

[...] Posted on June 19, 2009 by Cathy Sojourners magazine editor Jim Wallis reflects here on how becoming a father late in life has led him to see that a calendar is a moral [...]

By: gjkbear822

gjkbear822 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:02:16 +0000

Pastor Arnold,

Sorry, I didn't mean to sound really critical. It is just that I have noticed much criticism about everything lately. It seems to me as if some people can not read anything anymore without finding some point they seem to think they need to make and some of the sites I have been on it gets downright ugly. People calling themselves Christian and yet they have such hateful things to say. I am not sure when and where we lost the ability to have civil conversations - perhaps it was lost when people could say ugly things because they have a screen name and they are typing on a keyboard. They say things online that they would never dream of saying to someone's face.

I can understand your plight - even us UUs have to compete with soccer and little league. I have never quite understood the need to have soccer games or camp outs on a Sunday morning. I am the director of Religious Education at our small church and some Sundays our classrooms are down significantly. So, we do try to stress to the parents the importance of Religious Education and why they should bring their children on Sunday mornings. Sometimes we win, sometimes we loose and sometimes we get rained out as the saying goes.

May you have a very happy Father's Day, even if you only have 4 footed children....God Bless.

Glenna Jones-Kachtik
GJKBEAR

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By: designoutloud

designoutloud — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:08:31 +0000

Yes, a calendar can be a budget document of our time.

By: tjarnold

tjarnold — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:26:36 +0000

I think your point is well taken. However, as a local church pastor, I also know that sports, including Little League, often compete–and win–over church in families' calendars. Hence, my encouragement to include faith community commitments in the father/child relationship.

By: gjkbear822

gjkbear822 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:12:33 +0000

I think, he may not have mentioned it because it didn't occur to him. Since he is a man of faith (and I think mentioning the prayers of his sons shows that) and the fact that so much of Jim's life is built around faith and the true spirit of that faith – it just didn't occur to him to mention it.

As outsiders, looking in, we often find ways to critizice or add to others comments without thinking if we need to. I think it also matters who is writing the article. If it had been let's say, John Travolta – and he left out faith – your comment might be needed (not to say that John Travolta is or is not a person of faith – he might be or not be; but Jim Wallis certainly is).

Just an observation, no disrespect meant to you and your comment.

By: annepriestley

annepriestley — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:44:20 +0000

A budget speaks of our priorities for the money we have available. A calendar speaks of our priorities for the time we have available. The debate is all about who and what we place first.

By: muedprof

muedprof — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:27:52 +0000

Cherish them, Jim. They turn 13.

Things can slide quickly in the teen years. My daughter's birthday party had zero people come...even after they'd RSVP'd. They all had reasons. That doesn't matter, and we all know that.

My request for a Father's Day present is to have my eldest daughter tell me she loves me for the first time in 2009.

I know she does love me. I also know I'm not getting that present...

By: tjarnold

tjarnold — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:54:58 +0000

I agree with Mr. Wallis' affirmation of a calendar as a moral, and I would add, sacred document (just like a budget.) But I wish that in addition to Little League, he had encouraged dads to plan their schedules around their children's involvement in faith communities. To be sure, one can learn important lessons on a playing field, but regular engagement in a community of faith is a crucial part of a child's moral and spiritual development. Seeing their parents also engage that community and that faith is equally important. It would be great if dads added that to their moral and sacred calendars. Thanks.

Rev. Talitha Arnold
The United Church of Santa Fe

By: jkc1945

jkc1945 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:22:29 +0000

Very nice, Mr. Wallis. I am spending the week trying to sort out how the coming of the Kingdom might somehow “line up” with the love of a father for his children. Malachi sort of indicates this, when he connects the coming of God's kingdom with fathers: (Malachi 4: 5): “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes. And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the land with a curse.” Clearly, God cares about the connection of a father's heart with his children's hearts. I pray, this father's day, that we all would make the same connection.