[Magdalen] The Theology of Clerical Beards

[Molly Wolf]

I like a beard that's full and nicely trimmed.  Three-day stubble on the right face, if the facial foliage isn't patchy and is long enough not to resemble coarse steel wool, can be really sexy.  A beard that looks like it should be combed for food scraps and wildlife, not so much.  The Patriarchal Full Moses or the Paterfamilias Chin Fringe bespeaks attitudes with which I do not wish to engage. The current goatee craze is most on guys who are way too young for me.

I too had a spouse with a glorious mustache.  He and our sons grow beards that look like inadequate pubic hair and now have shaved faces.

Molly

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

> On Jan 22, 2016, at 11:07 AM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Meh. S/O is bearded and I fully approve. My late ex had a mustache and I
>> once told him that if he ever shaved it off, we were through (but that's
>> not why I divorced him, in the end) but he couldn't grow a decent beard, it
>> came in patchy. Adam grew a beard post-Iraq, that would have looked really
>> fine if he'd trimmed it. No problem with them.
> 
> I had a beard for a while at university but got tired of fiddling with
> it. I don't mind beards on others; I just don't want one of my own.
> 
> -- 
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA