[Magdalen] The Theology of Clerical Beards

[Lynn Ronkainen]

A neighbor in his 70s with a balding top but otherwise full head of hair 
*around* the bald spot has stark and beautiful white hair. 2 months ago I 
thought he was growing a beard to be a Santa for the holidays. Yesterday I 
saw him still bearded and beginning to look like a life-size, full 
proportioned yard Gnome, it turns out he is going to compete in a  Earnest 
Hemmingway contest!!

Who knew : )

Lynn

website: www.ichthysdesigns.com

When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
by Richard Rohr

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From: "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 11:27 AM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] The Theology of Clerical Beards

> My Israeli friend Yitzhak has been fully bearded most of his adult life,
> but he says every couple of years he shaves to "let his face breathe". The
> first time he did it, his oldest son Yishai screamed in fear when he saw
> his clean-shaven dad, so thereafter while his boys were young, he always
> had them watch him take it off.
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 12:23 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
> wrote:
>
>> >>>When I see the stylised beards some men have sich as a narrow strip
>> trimmed short following the jaw line I wonder why.  Keeping it trimmed
>> must be a lot more work that a proper shave every day.<<<
>>
>> Or just letting it go (within reason) and keeping it combed as best one
>> can between occasional modest trims aimed less at appearance than for 
>> basic
>> maintenance.
>>
>> Fully bearded since 19 yrs old, minus a small stretch in 2003 when I
>> genuinely wanted to go fully shorn from then on, but my skin simply won't
>> hear of it ("The Beard of Necessity").
>>