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When can a Christian divorce their spouse?
Having considered in a previous post what God thinks about divorce the next question we face is in which situations does God permit divorce? It's important that we recognise that Bible-believing Christians have always held a variety of views. Andreas Kostenberger's God, Marriage, and Family: Rebuilding the Biblical Foundation provides an excellent summary of arguments for and against various views. Recognising that godlier people than me have arrived at different conclusions suggests that a certain humility and generosity of spirit is required in presenting our own personal conclusions. In fact what gives us the freedom to disagree as evangelicals on secondary issues is constantly remembering and holding dear just how much we do agree on in relation to Christ and the gospel.
The first thing that we can say is that if we take the Bible seriously then we will accept that
1) Christians cannot divorce unless a spouse is at serious fault
In Matthew 19v.3 we read Some of the Pharisees came to Jesus to test him 'Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason? Jesus' reply is a categorical 'no'. In v.8 he answers Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery.
What Jesus insists upon here is that God does not recognise the category of 'no fault' divorce. His words also rule out divorce for what we might call 'irreconcilable difference.' Indeed, if ever there might be permission granted to separate from a spouse on grounds of irreconcilable difference we might think it would be found in the situation where someone comes to faith in Christ and their spouse does not. In addressing this question Paul insists that the Bible calls us to faithfulness to our marriage vows, even if we made them before coming to faith in Christ. Paul says to Christians – stay married to your unbelieving spouse.
1 Corinthians 7:12-14 To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If any brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.
Every marriage will go through difficult times but if a marriage can be honouring to God even after one spouse comes to faith in Christ then the gospel calls on us to work through circumstantial changes and remain faithful.
Having seen that we are not free to divorce simply because marriage is hard or circumstances change, what Jesus does affirm is that
2) Christians can initiate a righteous divorce if their spouse is sexually immoral in marriage
In Matthew 19v.9 Jesus says 'Anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery.' The word 'marital unfaithfulness' is the Greek word porneia and it is the word often translated elsewhere in the Bible as sexual immorality.
Why does Jesus use the word porneia? It is a catch all term for any kind of sex outside of marriage – heterosexual sex, homosexual or bestiality. So Jesus rules out any form of sex outside of sex with our spouse.
Why does Jesus single out sexual immorality as the one ground for divorce? The most likely reason I suggest is that sex with someone who is not my spouse is a unique violation of the 'one-flesh' union. Kevin De Young has said 'Sexual sin breaks the marriage covenant because sex is the oath signing of the covenant. Having sexual experiences with someone other than your spouse is like trying to sign on someone else's dotted line. That breaks the covenant and is a ground for divorce.'
So, what should we conclude from Jesus words in this passage? Two important conclusions flow from Jesus' teaching here.
Firstly, it is vital to healthy church life that we remember that whilst every divorce is the product of sin, not every divorce therefore sinful because Jesus permits divorce under this one exceptional circumstance.
Second, Jesus words also mean that marriage is not indissoluble. Never God's design but A marriage really can end. When Jesus says "What God has joined together, let no man separate" he implies that the couple can be separated. This will become important when we consider in a future post whether or not God permits remarriage.
Is this all that the Bible teaches on divorce? Most evangelicals believe that this is the only ground under which Christians might initiate a righteous divorce. But in that second passage read to us this morning we find Paul giving a second ground in which a marriage may come to an end in God's eyes. Not one in which the Christian has initiated divorce but one where the Christian has in effect been divorced by an unbelieving spouse.
3) Christians may accept an unrighteous divorce by an unbelieving spouse
Having called on Christians to stay in their marriages with unbelieving spouses Paul goes on to say 1 Cor 7v.15 'but if the unbeliever leaves, let him do so. A believing man or woman is not bound in such circumstances.'
Under the Roman law of the first century it was not necessary to consult a lawyer and go to court to get divorced. It was enough to simply abandon the marriage. Walking out with no intention of returning was to divorce your spouse. In our culture we differentiate between separation and divorce but neither the Bible nor Roman law made such a distinction.
Paul teaches that if a spouse is abandoned by their unbelieving partner, and if it is clear to all that the deserting spouse does not intend to return, the church should recognise that a marriage has come to an end even if the innocent spouse is the one who has to legally begin the divorce proceedings.
Some have tried to find an irreconcilable contradiction between Jesus and Paul at this point. But a closer examination of the two passages reveals that far from contradicting each other they complement each other because they address two distinct questions.
Jesus is answered the question 'when can I as a Christian, under God, initiate a righteous divorce?' Paul is answering the question 'what should I do as a Christian, if I have been wrongly divorced by my unbelieving spouse? '
Evangelical Christians agree that these are the only New Testament texts that address the issue of divorce but in our next post we will consider the work of David Instone-Brewer and his contention that Jesus held to certain other grounds for divorce found in the Old Testament.
What does God think of divorce? God permits divorce
Having considered what it means that God hates divorce in an earlier post we now need to recognise that
The holiness of God means that he permits divorce ¬
Although God hates divorce we also find in the Bible that in a world marked by sin God does in certain, exceptional circumstances, permit divorce. There can be times when it might be right to end a marriage and in a future post I'll say more on which situations God permits divorce.
In Matthew 19 we see Jesus at odds with the religious leaders of his day. As we read v.4-8 the difference in attitude is obvious.
"Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,' and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'? So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate." "Why then," they asked, "did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?" Jesus replied, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning.
Did you notice that crucial difference in the thinking and attitude of Jesus over against the Pharisees? The Pharisees said that in the law of Moses there were certain circumstances which required a man to divorce his wife. The Pharisees said 'Moses commanded that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away.'
Now Jesus only agreed with them in part. For Jesus knew that the law of Moses did not command divorce. As John McArthur says 'God never commands it, endorses it, or blesses it.' But Jesus says (v.8) 'because of the hardness of human hearts God does permit it.' In this statement Jesus affirms that divorce is possible and it is possible to divorce without being sinful.
I guess that means it is really important to realise that if a divorce takes place between a couple who are members of the church, although we can be sure that it is as a result of sin, we are not saying that both parties are to blame. In fact it is quite possible in situations of divorce that one party is innocent of sin. At the beginning of Matthew's gospel ,1:19, we read 'because Joseph her husband was a righteous man and did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly.'
The church has far too often been quick to condemn all who divorce and we can be quick to judge others with no knowledge of the facts. In the face of wilful, persistent, unrepentant sin it can be the most godly thing you can do to divorce and the single strongest indicator that this must be the case is the fact that God himself initiates divorce against unrepentant adulterous Israel. In Jeremiah 3:6-10 we read;
During the reign of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, "Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has committed adultery there. I thought that after she had done all this she would return to me but she did not, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it. I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and committed adultery.
We saw in the previous post that God's amazing patience, revealed in his dealing with Israel in the book of Hosea, is a model for our marriages but so also is his radical holiness.
Real love is not a pitiful acceptance of others — sin and all. Lines have to be drawn and they are drawn as an expression of love. Tough love means telling the person you love that there are limits to what conduct is acceptable in your relationship. If someone seeks to mock God by deliberately breaking their marriage vows divorce is a righteous act and one the church should be willing to, with a heavy-heart, support.
The mercy of God means that he permits divorce
Divorcing a spouse does not sound like a mercy but in many instances it has proved to be the only action that has brought about a true repentance. As someone has written 'helping others to face up to responsibility without protecting them from the consequences of their own decisions is what tough love is all about. Setting limits as to how far we can reasonably go in helping our spouses allows God to work His loving discipline in their lives.'
And that is exactly the principle we find at work in God's own covenant commitment to Israel. When God divorces Israel he sends her away – for a long period of separation – even as he is at work to see that relationship restored. Back in Jeremiah 3, In the very same chapter where God says he has divorced Israel, the Lord also proclaims, 3v.12 and again v.14 'return faithless people for I am your husband….I will choose you and bring you to Zion.. .at that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne of the Lord, and all nations will gather in Jerusalem to honour the name of the Lord. No longer will they follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts. In those days the house of Judah will join the house of Israel.'
And God's mercy is seen in relation to the innocent victim of divorce as well. God permits divorce out of loving concern for an innocent party in a marriage. We will return to the issue of re-marriage in a future post when we turn to the questions of what are the biblical grounds for divorce and when, if ever, is it right to remarry. But God's concern for the innocent party means, at the very least, she is not bound to stay in the home with an abusive spouse, nor is she bound to her marriage if deserted by an unbelieving spouse, nor forced to stay in a marriage in which her husband is sleeping with other people.
God permits divorce out of loving concern for spouses who are victims of abuse and adultery.
But whether we are single, married, divorced or widowed – whatever our situation – the extraordinary truth that we rest upon today is that God is a God of complete faithfulness to us. Despite Israel's repeated spiritual adultery – God's plan to raise up a saviour for us from the Jews – is gloriously fulfilled in Jesus. God could have given up on us – but his covenant love and covenant promises remain secure.
What does God think of divorce?
In future posts we will consider in what situations Christians are permitted to end a marriage and if and when the Bible permits remarriage. In this post I simply want to address the question, 'what does God think of divorce?'
1. The faithfulness of God means that he hates divorce – Malachi 2:10-16
God is a God of faithfulness who keeps his covenant promise with us his people. Would you turn back to that first reading Malachi 2:10-16. The Lord God hates unfaithfulness in all of its forms and here in v. 11 he accuses Judah of having broken faith.
v.14. You ask why? It is because the Lord is acting as the witness between you and the wife of your youth, because you have broken faith with her. She is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant. Has not the Lord made them one? In flesh and spirit they are his.
God is against us when we divorce wrongly. He is against us because we are breaking faith with him when we break faith with our spouse. That is why we read v.16 I hate divorce, says the Lord. The Lord is a witness against us when we wrongly divorce.
If God hates divorce then we must do all we can to remain faithful and protect our marriages.
When Jane and I were dating, as a birthday present, she spent far too much money on me when she bought me a bonsai tree. I was thrilled, really genuinely delighted. I admired it showed it off to others, talked about it at work, but I didn't have a clue how to look after it. And rather than feed it and water it, prune it and tend to it – as a result of neglect – I killed it. A lack of thought, care and attention and within months it was dead.
Now marriage is a living thing and if you don't give it the time and attention it needs and deserves you might just kill it. No-one sets out to get divorced. I haven't met a Christian who's got married thinking it might not survive. But we ought to fear the death of a marriage.
Look what Malachi says, not once but twice,
v.15 'guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.'
How do you know that out of love you fear the break-up of your marriage? It seems to me you will do 3 things
i) Prioritise your marriage.
Perhaps the biggest threat to a marriage is simply putting other things before it. In 20 years of marriage I can tell you there have been times when that has been true of my marriage. So, block out time for each other, take regular holidays, keep date nights and please pray together. For Jane and I that was not always top of our agenda but for the past 4 years we have prayed together practically every day, . Make time for sex in the marriage, speak tenderly to each other – remind each other of what you really like and appreciate about each other.
Feed your marriage or you'll kill it. And watch out for the very subtle and hidden danger of mistaking working in your marriage for working on your marriage. Many marriages give the appearance of strength because husband and wife are busy sacrificing and serving but not for the sake of the marriage but for a purpose that ought to be subordinate to the marriage. That could be building a home, raising a family, pursuing a career. It's not enough to have a shared goal that keeps you busy if you are not directly working on your marriage, building intimacy, enjoying each other. Being busy together is just not enough.
ii) Protect your marriage.
Protect it from other good things e.g. church-activity, work-overload, the competing demands of the children. Can I say that it is one of the most important things you can do for your children to demonstrate to them in ways they understand that your marriage comes before their demands. That could be in simple and small ways such as not letting them interrupt a conversation.
Protect it from bad things – by taking sin in a marriage seriously. Have accountability software – men in particular watch out for pornography. Think of Joseph & Potiphar's wife. Joseph didn't go looking for trouble, but trouble in the form of sexual temptation found him and he knew to flee. Be on your guard against office affairs.
iii) Find support for your marriage
Most importantly find support from God. As well as praying together it a habit to pray together, make it a godly desire to pray for your spouse. Giving thanks, praying for spiritual growth. And find support from the church. As a church we want to offer pastoral support at the earliest possible opportunity for any marriage in difficulty.
How many people die of diseases who simply present too late to the doctor. A friend of mine had a growth on his neck. He was a bright student, physically strong, he thought he was immortal and he was naive. But he and I were also doing a summer camp together and a doctor was part of the team. Over the 10 days he kept saying to him, 'get that checked out,' because he kept saying it, the message stuck.He got back, got it diagnosed, it was cancer, but because it was caught in time the operation was successful and he made a full recovery.
If something in your marriage is not quite right – get it checked. Don't be embarrassed. The most dangerous thing you can do in a marriage is think that divorce could never happen to you. In the Bible we also find a second reason why God hates divorce. Not just because he is faithful but also because he is forgiving
2. The grace of God means he hates divorce – Hosea 1 & 3
Nowhere does the Bible demonstrate that lesson more than in the book of Hosea. John McArthur in his book The Divorce Dilemma writes 'the entire book of Hosea is a picture of God's forgiving and patient love for his people. A love that is dramatized by the prophet Hosea's forgiving and patient love for his wife Gomer.'
Hosea the prophet is sent to the northern kingdom of Israel and as part of his witness to Israel God calls on Hosea to deliberately choose for his wife someone who will be unfaithful to him.
In Hosea 1:2-3 we read these words 'when the Lord began to speak through Hosea, the Lord said to him, 'Go, take to yourself an adulterous wife and children of unfaithfulness, because the land is guilty of the vilest adultery in departing from the LORD.' So he married Gomer.' Israel, committed spiritual adultery against God and God is rightly angry with their unfaithfulness. He is angry, like a wife who comes home to find another woman in bed with her husband.
But God's response to Israel's sin is not to terminate the relationship. Rather, as one commentator puts it, his tactic is 'the artful strategy of an ardent lover. He intends to allure her, rekindling the romance they enjoyed in their early years together…He will entice her. He will draw her back.' The marriage will be saved because of the gracious and forgiving nature of God's love.
And once again we see Hosea called upon to live this love out in his own marriage. So, Hosea 3:1-4
The LORD said to me, "Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes." 2 So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and about a homer and a lethek of barley. 3 Then I told her, "You are to live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man, and I will live with you." 4 For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or idol. 5Afterward the Israelites will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to his blessings in the last days.
God is determined to renew his marriage with Israel.
Martyn Lloyd- Jones said 'God has never anywhere commanded anybody to divorce'. Even after serious sin, even after repeated covenantal unfaithfulness divorce is not inevitable. Not for the Christian. You see in the gospel God has given you resources to stay in a marriage even when others who are non-Christians might leave. Now this is not to say that Christians should passively accept unfaithfulness on the part of their spouse. This is not to say that we should be indifferent to sin in a marriage. Wherever there is sin we should call on each other to recognise it, confess it and repent of it. But where there is true repentance then restoration is possible and should be worked for –to the glory of God.
Some of you know that at first hand. You've witnessed parents working through issues of serious sin. Maybe even in your own marriage. And you've found that where there is true repentance – grace triumphs over sin! Just think what a powerful testimony it is when by God's grace we are able to forgive and forget and re-build marriages on a foundation of grace. It brings glory to God that with the grace of God we are able to overcome sin.
As elders we believe that divorce ought to be avoided if at all possible. And that means that we will always discourage divorce and work wherever possible towards reconciliation because that is our experience of God's love for us in the gospel. You see the Bible calls on us not just to honour our vows but to exhibit the character of Christ in our lives.
In the next post we will see that although God hates divorce he also permits it.
Sharing our faith – this diagram might help
Most Christians recognise the importance of sharing our faith with our family and friends and yet little thought goes into how we go about it. Let me suggest this simple model (adapted from some material by Oivind Augland on church planting movements.)
The two steps we need to take are to recognise 3 crucial ingredients to our personal evangelism and then consider the 3 sets of relationships between the ingredients that can help us be most effective.
1. Be spiritually available to God. The heart of personal evangelism is a heart that is ready to serve God. We won't make ourselves available to others unless we are already 'available' to God. So make a desire to speak of Christ a measure of your Christian walk, asking that he would use us and speak through us as well as asking that we would be bold and clear, making the most of every opportunity in evangelism (c.f. Col. 4:2-6).
2. Build your number of friendships. Some of us have natural opportunities to build our base of contacts or acquaintances; maybe our work constantly introduces us to new people or we meet other parents through our kids. That said, building a friendship base require us to go beyond occasional casual conversations to the kind of relationship that marks out friendship. That could mean choosing to initiate conversation by a) sharing more personal information, b) asking thoughtful questions, c) remembering important information eg what someone said they were planning to do at the weekend, the names of their family members, interests and hobbies,etc. d) managing your timetable so that you are more likely to cross paths eg arriving at the school gate at the same time each day, looking for the same assistant at the checkout, e) offering support, help, advice (as appropriate).
3. Spend time with friends. There's not much point having friends if we don't invest in those friendships. Like much of life its a choice between the best thing to do and a good thing to do. For Christians stuck into church that might mean we've made a default choice to spend most of our time with Christian friends (and church meetings!) and neglected our friends and neighbours around us. Unless we make them a priority chances are we'll continue to give our energies to church-life. If Christ has commanded us to go and make disciples then maybe the balance needs addressing.
3 sets of relationships
Put these things in place and we're on our way. But there is something to be said for exploring the relationship between the circles (see the diagram below).
1, Prayer is where our being spiritually available to God and building friendship circles overlap. Our commitment to build friendships and be used by God is seen in our daily decision to pray for those we would like to build friendships with. Pray for opportunity and wisdom.
2. Discernment might well describe the relationship between being available and growing relationships. We can't possibly be spending the kind of time we might like with all of our non-Christian friends and relations. So as we pray we ask God to help us discern who to give our time and energies too and which relationships to pursue.
3. Action is where building the friendship base and nurturing those relationships kick in. That means being intentional and being proactive in these relationships. We need to clear our diaries, change our priorities, be proactive in extending invitations as we seek opportunities to share Christ.
Putting all of that together and we have 'MI' or maximum impact.
What the 'Cities Outlook 2014′ study reveals about Birmingham
Five things the Centre for Cities study 'Cities Outlook 2014' published today reveals about the city of Birmingham
1. Birmingham has enjoyed the greatest increase in 'life satisfaction' of any major UK over the past year (Table 17 – Life satisfaction change)
2. The city created 15,400 new jobs in the private sector between 2010-12; only London and Edinburgh figured better (Figure 3: Private and public sector job creation)
3. Birmingham has the 4th lowest employment rate of any UK city (Table 5: Employment rate)
4. It has the second highest level of inequality of any city in the UK (Table 12 – Disparities within cities)
5. Birmingham is one of the 10 cities with the highest percentage of no formal qualifications (Table 10 – Residents with no formal qualifications)
What does the Bible mean when it says that wives are to submit to their husbands?
As I mentioned in the last post the Bible has a lot to say about marriage not least because the principles behind how we ought to behave towards one another as Christians in general can be applied to the marriage relationship in particular. So if the Bible says love one another, be patient with one another, they are lessons for Christian marriage.
But it is in Ephesians 5v.22-32 that we find Paul identifying that it is in husbands and wives living out their God-given gender roles that we find a key to healthy and happy marriage. Our marriages are modelled on the relationship witnessed between Christ and the church.
Today, we start where Paul starts and a word to wives.
Wives submit to your husband v.22-24
Now I recognise how counter-cultural and for some downright offensive Paul's words appear here. Many are tempted to simply ignore these words or to relativise their meaning for our own time and culture. But let me highlight five reasons to see wisdom for today in this command.
1. Paul's words are to wives not to the husbands. What that means is that submitting to the leadership of the husband in a marriage is active and voluntary. It's an instruction to the wife not an invitation to a husband. Paul has a lot to say to husbands but compeling your wife to respect and submit to your leadership is not one of them.2. All Christians are called on to submit. We shouldn't think that submitting is something only married women are asked to do. The reality is that ALL Christians face multiple situations and circumstances in which God calls on them to willingly and voluntarily submit to the leadership of others. Men and women must submit to Christ in becoming his disciple (Matt. 7:21-23), also to submit to local church leadership and discipline (Hebs. 13:17), to the civil authorities (Rom. 13:1-7) and of course to their employers (Eph. 6:5-8).
One writer comments: We live in an ordered universe, in which there is authority and submission to authority everywhere (cf. Rom. 13:1). Authority and submission relationships are therefore natural and necessary.
3. Not all types of submission function in the same way. They differ, often radically, from one another. Time doesn't permit me to build a case here. But in the context of the Bible as a whole we see, for example, that a wife is not called on to submit in the way for a child submits to its parents.
4.There are limits to our submission. We should only ever obey the word of a husband IF his leadership is consistent with what the Lord Jesus calls on us to do c.f. Acts 4:18-20.
5. This is an invitation to be like Jesus. Jesus always and only did the will of his father in heaven.
So Paul in 1 Corinthians 11.3 says: Now I want you to realise that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. In Ephesians Christ is the model for servant-leadership in headship. But in 1 Cor. (and elsewhere) He is the model for submission. If we think that submission is simply just wrong then we are taking issue with Jesus. Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane the night before he died showed what an extraordinary thing this submission is. He said to his Father (this is Luke 22.42):
'Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.'
6. It functions differently in different situations. It is self-evident that this aspect of a marriage relationship will look different i) from couple to couple, ii) generation to generation, and iii) one culture to another. There are plenty of women in the Bible taking initiative, exercising leadership, managing others and in every way using their God-given gifts and abilities. This is not a call for women to be passive and subservient!
7. No-where does God give us a list of what men and women are to do. This is not about who manages the money, or does the washing up, or has the highest paid job.
8. It is a blessing. Submitting to the leadership of a man who is seeking to love you as Christ loved the church should bring us great blessing. A husbands job is to be deeply ambitious for the spiritual growth of his wife (and children). Ambitious enough to make you his personal priority and spiritual focus.
A word to single people thinking of marriage
If you are a woman hoping one day to marry. You need to look for a man who, v.32, you can respect. This has nothing to do with his dress sense, or ability with money, etc., but everything to do with whether you would be willing to let him lead spiritually in the marriage relationship.
I'm sure that means it is not a good idea if you are a woman to marry a new Christian who would need to constantly look to you for a lead in spiritual matters. This instruction of Jesus also shows why it is positively dangerous to marry a non-Christian who cannot lead you into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ.
In our culture marriage has become like a jigsaw without the box
What exactly is God's purpose for marriage?
In Ephesians 5.31-32 we read 'for this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.' This is a profound mystery – but I am talking about Christ and the church.
For many people marriage is a total mystery. Maybe it's a mystery to you that anyone would want to make the kind of commitment that marriage requires. Some of us might question why anyone would ever want to give up their freedom it that way. Maybe it's a mystery for you that people still think marriage works – you've experienced marriages that have been painful or come undone.
When Paul uses the word mystery he doesn't so much mean something that is beyond our understanding. By mystery he means something that is hidden and must be revealed. The word mystery could equally be translated 'secret'. In other words Paul wants us to know the secret of marriage. What could be more important to us not only to know what marriage is but what it is for.
So what is the secret of marriage?
Paul says the secret, v.32, is that marriage is 'about Christ and the church.' We can't understand God's purpose for our marriages, as believers, unless we look deeply at the relationship between Christ and the church. What on earth does Paul mean?
I've used this illustration at a few weddings recently but I think it captures something of the idea. A 2000 piece jigsaw is hardly a wedding present many people would put on their list. But imagine I gave a couple a 2000 piece puzzle but without the box. You know that if you can only put them all together they would make a beautiful picture. But what is a puzzle becomes more of a mystery when there is no picture on the box to look at – you just don't know where to begin.
In our culture marriage has become like a jigsaw without the box. We just don't know what we're meant to be making of it. Now think what pressure that puts relationships under, when you are competing to make different things of the puzzle. Inevitably it leads to stress and conflict.
But the Bible insists that the key to marriage is to understand that the picture on the box is here in the Bible. We know that there is a day still to come when God will have a relationship with his people so perfect, so intimate, so loving that the nearest we come to it on earth, the only way we know how to describe it is a marriage. Christ and the church are made for each other, they will share eternity together in a perfect relationship.
Marriage now is about re-creating in our lives a picture of the marriage that is still to come. The pieces become the picture on the box. Marriage and the gospel inform each other. And we see that idea all of the way through the passage. Five times our passage Paul says to husbands look and learn from Jesus (vv. 23, 24, 25, 29 and 32). He tells us that Christ is the head of the church, that Christ loved the church by giving up his life for her. We learn that he cares for the church by feeding it and sustaining it and that the living Christ is united to his church for all time. And then Paul says six times look at the church and learn, (vv. 23, 24, 25, 27, 29 and 32). Christ is the head of the church; Christ loved the church, he feeds it and sustains it and the living Christ is united to his church.
In our society so many solutions are offered to the challenges of marriage. The state might try to offer tax incentives – appealing to our pockets. Self-help books and agony aunts insist marriage works when we stand up for our rights in a relationship. Paul's radical message is that husband and wife, by looking to that gospel, learn to give up their rights. The power for Christian marriage comes when wives give up a right to autonomy and independence and husbands give up their right to self-interest by dedicating their lives to the good of their wives.
As we grapple with this passage we find Paul's key to healthy and happy marriage lies in God, the gospel and his purpose for Christian marriage in the world. Paul will tell us let the gospel inform your marriage and let your marriage glorify the God of the gospel.
Next time 'why should wives submit to their husbands and what does that look like?'
Finding God in marriage. 3 ways in which a marriage reveals God's character
This is the third post in a look at the question 'What is marriage?' We began by recongising that there are at least 5 reasons why we need to look at this issue afresh. In the last post we considered the consequences that have flowed from the radical redefinition of marriage from covenant to contract that has taken place in our society since the 1960's.
Now I want us to reflect on just how what the Bible teaches us about marriage as a covenant relationship changes the way we might think about marriage. The five headings I'm using come from Andreas Kostenberger's book God, marriage and family. As we go through each one I'm going to touch briefly on how a marriage covenant points us to a better understanding of God who has made a covenant with us in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
If marriage were merely a contract between two parties then it could be temporary but because it is covenant established by God it is permanent. Jesus' words in Matthew 19:4-6 and in particular his conclusion 'what God has joined together let not man separate' makes that clear.When Christians marry we must never marry thinking to ourselves well if things don't work out for me in this relationship, if I am unhappy, unfulfilled, or if our lives are pulling in different directions then I can always leave.
As Tim Keller says 'to break faith with your spouse is to break faith with God at the same time.'
James Dobson wrote a letter to his finance shortly before their wedding day and he said 'I want you to understand and be fully aware of my feelings concerning the marriage covenant we are about to enter. I have been taught at my mother's knee and in conformity to the word of God that the marriage vows are inviolable and my entering into them I am binding myself absolutely and for life – the idea of estrangement from you through divorce for any reason at all will never be permitted to enter my thinking. I'm not naive on this on the contrary I'm fully aware of the possibility, unlikely as it now appears, that mutual incompatibility or other unforeseen circumstances could result in extreme mental suffering. If such becomes the case I am resolved for my part to accept it as a consequence of the commitment I am now making and to bear if necessary to the end of our lives together.'
How does this point us to God?
This costly sacrifice that comes from committing ourselves by way of covenant is what we see demonstrated by God in the gospel. He made a covenant to love us and he has kept that covenant even though it caused considerable pain to do so.
2. The sacredness of marriage
Because marriage is a relationship not just ordained by God but as John Stott says 'sealed by God' only God can end a marriage. It is not for us to decide that a marriage is finished but for God to say it may be finished. Jesus' words in Matthew 19:1-12 address marriage, divorce and singleness and in this series we will spend quite a bit of time in this passage. In his comments on divorce we read very sobering words that tell us that if we end a marriage for reasons that God has not permitted then any subsequent remarriage is sinful and adulterous. Jesus says, Matt. 19v.9, I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery.' What Jesus teaches in this declaration is that there might be divorces that, whatever we might like to think, are not divorces in God's eyes. For him the first marriage is not over.
Sealed by God, our marriages are sacred. As his children so we must therefore work on my marriage, invest in it, nurture and feed it.
How does this point us to God? In the gospel we see God practicing what he preaches. However weak our love is and however many times we may fail God his covenant loyalty means that he will not break promise with us or himself. It is a sacred bond. Our relationship with God is not performance-based and he will not withhold his love or his affection because we struggle to honour our commitments. That said, Scripture's warning is also clear that if we deny Christ and forsake him our covenant with God is broken. 'If we disown him, he will also disown us' (2 Tim. 2:12).
3. The intimacy of marriage
In the beginning God says everything in his perfect world is good. That is the constant refrain of chapter 1. But there is one thing that is not good and that is that the man is alone. Now, interestingly, God says it is not good before Adam appears to have noticed that it is not good. There is no evidence in the passage that Adam is lonely. As Christopher Ash points out in Married for God 'marriage is not there to solve the problems of loneliness.'
Our culture tells us that we will be unfulfilled unless we one day marry. That is not so. In heaven we will not be married, the Lord Jesus never married and many Christians down the ages have testified to lives lived fully for Christ as single people. We will return to this theme later. Rather it is the job that God has given Adam to do that means it is not good for him to be alone.
Marriage is a gift of God to help us fulfil the work God has given us to do. In Genesis 1v27-28 we read 'so God created man, in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, 'Be fruitful and increase in number'
Part of God's purpose for marriage is godly offspring. Christopher Ash says 'we ought to want children in marriage because we want to serve God. The Creator entrusts to married couples the awesome privilege and responsibility of pro-creating.'
There are many ways to serve God but the distinctive way in which couples in marriage are to serve God is bringing up godly children. Ash says 'never despise the significance of parenthood in the service of God! For many, especially mothers what they do as parents will prove more significant in eternity than the most glittering careers in the eyes of the world.'
God's purpose for marriage addresses two big questions of our day.
Why would God not approve of same-sex marriage?
If marriage is about companionship then it might be that a stable, loving, committed homosexual relationship would be considered equal in God's eyes with a heterosexual one. But, whilst not the only argument against that conclusion, a key one is that God's purposes in marriage are pro-creation. I want to point you to this little book called Is God anti-gay? It's written by a friend of mine, who is a church leader and whilst preferring not to use the title 'gay' to describe himself he is someone who is attracted to other men. Drawing on those words of Genesis 1 he says 'God's purposes in marriage depend on hetero-sexual relations.' Marriage is designed to bring children into the world.
Whilst in a perfect world God's design for every marriage is children, living as we do this side of the fall, sadly, not every marriage enjoys the blessing of children. Jane and I know something of that pain personally having waited 12 years to have kids. If this a personal struggle for you or friends can I commend the book Just the two of us written by a friend.
Why is sex outside of marriage wrong?
God's design for marriage is that Adam and Eve should express their perfect intimacy through the union of their bodies. In Genesis 2:24 we read 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.' Sex is the body-language of perfect self-giving intimacy that befits marriage. Sex outside of marriage is to tell a lie with our bodies because when we give our bodies to another – when we are united to them – and yet are not commitment to them through the marriage bond we make one promise with our bodies that we are not ready to make with our whole lives.
How does the intimacy of a marriage point us to the gospel?
The intimacy of marriage does point us to the greater intimacy that God offers to us in the gospel. At the very end of the Bible, in Revelation 21:4, we read 'God will wipe every tear from their eyes.' Our need for close, intimate relationship will be fully met in Christ. What many of us are looking for from a marriage is actually to be found in our relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.
In the next post two further ways in which marriage as covenant changes our view of marriage.
Marriage in our culture is a contract masquerading as a covenant
What is marriage?
There can be no doubt that one of the most significant events of 2013 was the passing of legislation by Parliament re-defining marriage. At the heart of the debate, whether acknowledged or not , was the question 'what kind of relationship is marriage?' And the reason that Christians and our non-Christian friends have found ourselves talking past each other and have failed to find any common ground is simply this; in our society there has been a silent revolution that has taken place over the past 40 years or more in which marriage has ceased to be understood as a covenant and come to be understood as a contract.
What is the difference?
At the heart of the idea of marriage as contract, Tim Keller argues, is the idea that personal fulfilment and individual happiness. So much so that therefore 'we stay connected to people only as long as they are meeting our particular needs.' Many might talk of a marriage being over because 'we have fallen out of love,' or 'have drifted apart.' Marriage vows still give the impression that marriage is a covenant – huge life-long promises are still made – yet the change in mindset that has also seen the introduction of no-fault divorce demonstrating the reality that marriage in our culture is a contract masquerading as a covenant.
Unlike a contract, in covenants we bind ourselves to another 'come what may.' The relationship, rather than personal fulfilment, is the centre. Keller argues that perhaps the only covenantal relationship that we can still relate to in our culture is that of parent and child. Parents put the child and the relationship ahead of individual happiness and comfort. Parents sacrifice and serve and seek the well-being of the other ahead of their own. It's practically unthinkable to imagine someone coming into work announcing that their relationship with their kids was over. Well until relatively recent times it was almost as unthinkable that the marriage relationship could end.
Here's a table showing how the change from covenant to contract has impacted marriage. In 2011 there were 117558 divorces, in 1860 there were 103. After the 1969 reform act the figures grow exponentially. Why was divorce so rare for so long? Because in our culture marriage was regarded as a binding covenant.
At least three things flow from this biggest redefinition of marriage away from covenant to contract.
1. Falling marriage rates. The reason people say marriage is 'just a piece of paper' is because they are viewing it as an economic contract. Whether or not to marry at all is now really no different from going into the phone shop and weighing up the advantages and disadvantages of a contract phone vs. pay as you go. Co-habitation is simply pay as you go. So the table tracks that general decline over 40 years.
2. General acceptance of no fault divorce ad steep rises in divorce rate. Again, that's what the table shows us.
3. Freedom to redefine marriage and therefore who may enter the relationship. Why should we exclude same-sex couples who wish to make their commitment to each other if marriage is a contract the terms of which we define. And now that same-sex marriage has been accepted by society it's not surprising that growing numbers of people want polygamous relationships recognised too. Why should we limit a love agreement to 2 people? So in Brazil last year a civil union was established between a man and two women.
What does this mean for Christians and their view of marriage?
The real danger for us in establishing healthy marriages will probably not come from the challenge presented by the re-definition of marriage that took place last year but the cultural shift that represents the redefinition of marriage from covenant to contract over the past 40 years. What tv and Hollywood have done to redefine marriage is far more likely to shape the way you think about marriage, even your own, than recent events.
Tim Keller writes 'the very idea of 'covenant' is disappearing in our culture. Covenant is therefore a concept that is increasingly foreign to us, and yet the Bible says it is the essence of marriage, so we must take time to understand it.'
For, as we will see in our next post, Jesus says marriage is not a contract but a covenant.
Why our church is looking at marriage, divorce and singleness
This Sunday at City Church we started a nine week series entitled Marriage, Divorce & Singleness. I gave the following 5 reasons for making this our focus at the start of the new year.
1. Understanding for a world in confusion. In our times no-one seems really sure as to what marriage actually is. We need God's word to shed light on this topic with some urgency and in doing so we will find that God's word constantly challenges the values and wisdom of our culture.
2. Preparation for the future. We need help to make wise choices and decisions about marriage. Whether we are in a marriage or thinking one day about marriage we need to understand God's purpose for marriage. What should we be working towards to fulfil God's 'mission for marriage.'
3. Healing for the past. For some of us the very thought that we will be tackling subjects that are the cause of much personal unhappiness is a reason to be concerned. Maybe you have been a victim of divorce. For some of us it will be hard to be caused to reflect on an unhappy singleness (through all this talk of marriage!) after having worked so hard to learn to accept it. Well, the series is not here to dredge up hurts of the past and this series is certainly no witch-hunt designed to highlight past sins that have been repented of, but we do want to bring to God our past and seek understanding and a gospel perspective that allows us to move on with renewed joy in our hearts that the gospel is bigger than our past.
4. Wisdom for living well today. We need practical wisdom and advice on getting it right. We will be thinking through how we should live whilst maybe wanting to be married and waiting to be married and yet being single, how to know whether and when to marry. In what ways we should invest in and strengthen our marriages if we are married. What to do if we are struggling in marriage and how to resolve difficulties. Whether and in what situations we might even end a marriage.
But I want to say right at the start that it would be a big mistake to think that the reason we're looking at this topic is to focus only on human relationships. Our real goal in this series is that we might all say by the end of it we know our God better and that we have a deeper understanding and appreciation of the gospel.
5. Insight into the gospel. We need to understand how the themes of marriage, divorce and singleness point us to the very character and purposes of God in Christ Jesus. The truth is, whether we've ever thought about it or not that marriage, as a gift of God is given to teach us about our future.
The Bible might begin with a wedding between a man and a woman but it ends with a wedding between Christ and his bride, the church. Whatever our views on marriage for this life, we cannot afford to lose sight of the fact that if we believe the Bible then one day, perhaps very soon, we will all be married.
In Revelation 19 we read these words
Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty reigns. Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready. Fine linen, bright and clean, was give her to wear. (Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of the saints.)
The Christian life IS marriage preparation. Our relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ in the new creation is one of perfect union, intimacy and blessing that the only way we can get close to it in this life is to understand God's gift of marriage.
In the next post we will look at why marriage is in crisis in our culture and how the real and radical redefinition marriage took place not in this past year but 40 years ago.
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Harland L. Thayer 1933 - 2012 SIMPSONVILLE, SC - Harland Leslie Thayer, 79, beloved husband, father, Papa and friend passed away at home on Saturday, November 24, 2012. He was born on September 20, 1933 in Springfield, MA to Howard Anderson and Gertrude Sikes Thayer. He graduated from Westfield High School, Westfield, MA. Harland is survived by his wife, Adrith, and their daughters, Sharon Davis and her husband Brad, Melissa Reed, grandchildren, Lauren Davis, Caroline Davis, Christina Stitt, and Savanna Reed. Also surviving are four brothers, Roger, Leigh and wife Jackie, Glenn and wife Nancy, and Richard and wife Betty, and two sisters, Janet Maslar and husband Joe, and Connie Herman and husband Stan. Also surviving are his sisters-in-law Sarah Rowe, Norma Finlay and her husband Alex. He was predeceased by a sister, Ruth Meissner. Harland was a proud veteran having retired as a master sergeant from the U.S. Air Force. He had Tours of duty all over the world including Vietnam. For several years he worked for J.D. Hollingsworth on Wheels and retired from General Electric. A member and deacon of Mauldin First Baptist Church, he was called to a life of service, and in recent years enjoyed participating in youth mission trips with his church family. He loved hunting and the outdoors. He loved life and enjoyed a keen sense of humor, refusing to let age slow him down. He will be sorely missed. The family will receive friends on Monday, November 26, 2012 from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Thomas McAfee Funeral Home, Southeast chapel, 1604 NE Main Street, Simpsonville, SC 29681. The funeral service will be conducted Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 3:00 p.m. at Mauldin First Baptist Church, by the Reverend Wade Leonard and the Reverend L. E. Williamson. Private burial will follow in the church cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Mauldin First Baptist Youth Missions, 150 South Main Street Mauldin, SC 29662 or Russell Community Church, 58 Main Street, Russell, MA 01071. For more details, please visit
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Fell in love with the Dreamscarred Press Iconic Goblin Aegis in his Juggernaut armor. Had to make some fan art! Drawing is mine, the inspiration is all them.
What book or PDF is this one in? Because this looks absolutely amazing!
Thanks dude, but it's not published, just fan art. I'm glad you like it though, thanks for the kind words!
Sorry, I should have emphasized, "Just where was this Goblin Aegis item first published?"
But whatever, it's a great piece of art.
But whatever, it's a great piece of art.
Thank you very much for that link.
no sweat! Dreamscarred Press, the guys that make that book, are awesome. they've done a lot to modernize the old psionics system and beef up some conceptually really cool classes that were horribly busted in 3.5 like the soul knife.
According to what I've read the Aegis is basically someone who can psionically summon a suit of super-armor. That sounds like a very neat and quite original idea.
yup, exactly! I love the idea so that's why I wanted to draw it. I thought it was hilarious that they had a small goblin in this over size armor.


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Jim Wickwire
|Jim Wickwire
|James Wickwire
June 8, 1940
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Gonzaga University School of Law
Jim Wickwire (born June 8, 1940) was the first American to summit K2, the second highest mountain in the world (8,611 m - 28,251 feet).[1][2][3] Wickwire is also known for surviving an overnight solo bivouac on K2 at an elevation above 27,000 ft or 8,200 m; considered "one of the most notorious bivouacs in mountaineering history".[4] Between 1977 and 1982, Wickwire lost four climbing partners to fatal accidents on three separate mountains.[citation needed]
Early life[edit]
Wickwire was raised in the small town of Ephrata, Washington, by James and Dorothy Wickwire.[citation needed] He trained and has practiced as a lawyer.[5]
K2: summit and bivouac[edit]
K2 has been termed the "Savage Mountain" in writings about its high altitude climbing. Its dangers include notorious weather conditions, stretches of technical climbing on rock and ice, marked cliff exposures, and enormous, high-altitude serac. It has the second-highest fatality rate among the "eight thousanders" for those who climb it; of every four people who have reached the summit, one has died trying.[6] Unlike Annapurna, the mountain with the highest fatality rate, K2 has never been climbed in winter.
When Wickwire finally climbed K2 for the first time, seven climbers had already died there (though no one has died on any of Wickwire's climbing expeditions on K2). His first attempt on K2 was in a 1975 expedition that broke down in disputes and never got above 22,000 feet (6,700 m).
Wickwire reached the summit of K2 with Louis Reichardt on September 6, 1978. (This ascent was emotional for the American team, as they saw themselves as completing a task that had been begun by the 1938 team 40 years earlier).[7] The pair took photos on the summit, and then Reichardt started his descent immediately because he had made the climb without supplemental oxygen. Wickwire lingered a little longer, with the intention of catching up. Upon his descent it was beginning to get dark however, and Wickwire did not have a headlamp. Concerned about being able to move safely in the dark, he decided to spend the night where he was, which was below the summit but above 27,000 ft or 8,200 m.[8] Wickwire had done bivouacs before and knew he just needed to gut it out until daylight, which was risky because of the thin air and severe cold. Risks include: hypoxia, hypothermia, frostbite, cerebral edema, pulmonary edema, and falling.
Wickwire did not have a tent, sleeping bag, or water, either. His oxygen ran out halfway through the night, and his gas stove became inoperable. His only protection, other than his immediate winter clothing, was a thin nylon bivvy sack, which is uninsulated but windproof and helps to retain body heat. He shivered uncontrollably from the extreme cold (estimated to be -35 degrees below zero Faherenheit) and kept slowly sliding down the slope. He was forced to get out of his sack to remedy the problem and discovered that he was at risk of sliding over an edge that rolled off to drop 10,000 ft or 3,000 m below.[9] "No one had ever survived a solo bivouac above twenty-seven thousand feet".[8]
Fortunately, I had been through enough miserable bivouacs to know that the night would end. I also think that having reached the summit was a critical element in my survival, it gave me an adrenaline rush and great sense of satisfaction that saw me through the night. The hardest thing was trying to get moving in the morning. By then I was pretty far gone. What motivated me were thoughts of my wife and children.[4]
-Jim Wickwire on surviving a bivouac on K2
The next morning, John Roskelley and Rick Ridgeway found him continuing down while on their way to the summit. Wickwire lost parts of two toes and underwent lung surgery due to blood clots on his lungs (pulmonary emboli); he also caught pneumonia and pleurisy. The Pakistani army helicoptered Wickwire right from the glacier at the bottom of the mountain, and Wickwire immediately underwent lung surgery.[10] The surgeon expressed uncertainty about Wickwire's ever climbing at high altitudes again. Nevertheless, Wickwire continued high-altitude climbing a couple of years later, climbing the slopes of Alaska's Mount McKinley in preparation for his climbing expedition on Mount Everest.
Crevasse on McKinley[edit]
In 1981, Wickwire was traversing a glacier on Mount McKinley (also known as Denali), with a 25-year-old Mount Rainier guide named Chris Kerrebrock in the lead.[5] They were roped together and dragging a sled. Glaciers often have deep crevasses, which can be concealed by thin layers of snow. A crevasse opened up beneath Kerrebrock who fell in headfirst, pulling Wickwire and the sled in on top of him, since they were roped together. Wickwire was able to slowly climb out with an ice axe but was unable to rescue Kerrebrock, who was alive but wedged in tightly, still wearing his backpack and upside down. (Kerrebrock couldn't feel his hand when Wickwire touched it.) Wickwire had broken his shoulder, but slowly scaled the ice walls of the crevasse, six inches at a time, with his ice axe and crampons. Once upon the rim surface he attempted to dislodge Kerrebrock, who was still very much conscious, by pulling forcefully on the rope. Wickwire then descended on rope anchored to a snow picket, and attempted moving Kerrebrock's tightly-wedged backpack from within the crevasse, but all efforts were futile. Resigned to Kerrebrock's fate, the two men said their goodbyes. Kerrebrock subsequently died late in the night.[11] (Kerrebrock had instructed Wickwire to leave it up to his father to decide whether to leave his body in the crevasse or not. Wickwire led park rangers to the site, and they extracted Kerrebrock from the location).
Upon getting down from the mountain, which took several days and was fraught with more crevasse dangers, Wickwire was bullied by his guilt for months for being unable to save Kerrebrock. He thought about quitting the upcoming expedition to Mount Everest stating, "the furthest thought in my mind was Everest at that point".[11] His wife convinced him to think about it for a length of time before deciding one way or the other, so there would be no regrets down the road. Wickwire heeded his wife's advice, and in 1982, he was climbing Everest's slopes with the planned group for the expedition.[12]
North face Everest attempts[edit]
Wickwire made four (unsuccessful) attempts on the north side of Mount Everest, in: 1982, 1984, 1993, and 2003. During the 1982 expedition, Wickwire formed a relationship with female climber, Marty Hoey.[5] While ascending Everest, one day Wickwire and Hoey were taking a brief rest on a slope within a steep and icy couloir at 26,000 ft (7,900 m). When the two climbers above needed more rope Hoey got up to allow Wickwire to move into position to ascend. As she did so, something went wrong. As Wickwire explains:
In the midst of lifting my pack I heard a sudden pinging sound and turned my head to see Marty pitching backward, head-down the icy slope. I yelled, "Grab the rope!" Though she rolled onto her side and reached out, she missed the fixed rope, sliding past it just as it curved away toward the edge of the Great Coulier. I watched in shock and disbelief as she slid at an ever increasing speed, disappearing into a tunnel of mist, over a huge ice cliff, and onto the glacier six thousand feet below. Not once did she cry out.[13]
Wickwire looked back at the fixed rope and saw Hoey's open climbing waist harness still attached via a jumar. He couldn't compute at first what had happened, but later realized that her harness strap had not held, because Hoey hadn't threaded "the end of her belt back through the buckle (the only way to assure it would not come loose)".[13] Retracing the route down, Wickwire found one of her crampons, but her body was lost below in the mountain's bergschrund. After Hoey's death, the three remaining climbers of the expedition's first summit team turned back.[13][14]
In 1995, Jim Wickwire, John Roskelley, Tim Macartney-Snape, Stephen Venables, and Charlie Porter attempted a new route on Monte Sarmiento, on the western shores of Tierra del Fuego.[citation needed]
Personal life[edit]
At the time of Kerrebrock's death, Wickwire had been working for 20 years to become "one of the world's most accomplished mountain climbers".[5]
After his adventures came to a halt, Wickwire was still able to return to have a relationship with his wife, children, and now his grandchildren. His wife had supported him during the years that he was a risk taker in the mountains.
Wickwire is now a retired attorney living in Seattle, Washington.[citation needed]
In media[edit]
- Wickwire has published an autobiography, Addicted to Danger: A Memoir about Affirming Life in the Face of Death (with Dorothy C. Bullitt).[15]
The film K2 (1991) is based very loosely on Wickwire and Reichardt's 1978 K2 attempt; there are significant differences between the film and reality.[2]
- ^ http://www.law.gonzaga.edu/blog/2005/news/the-lawyer/summer-2005-lawyer/
- ^ a b "Climber Jim Wickwire Says 'K2' is Pretty Accurate - for Fiction". News Tribune. 1 May 1992. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
- ^ Stephen Graham (4 August 2008). "11 Feared Dead in Mountaineering Disaster on K2". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Associated Press. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
- ^ a b "Triumph and Tragedy: The Mountain Zone Interviews Jim Wickwire". Retrieved 2012-06-12.
- ^ a b c d The Kansas City Star, 18 Feb 1999, Eric Adler
- ^ "K2 list of ascents and fatalities" (PDF). 8000ers.com. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
- ^ American Alpine Journal, 1979, pp. 1–18
- ^ a b Wickwire; Bullitt; — p. 120.
- ^ Jim Wickwire; Dorothy Bullitt (1 February 1999). Addicted to Danger: A Memoir About Affirming Life in the Face of Death. Simon and Schuster. pp. 120–. ISBN 978-0-671-01991-4. Retrieved 10 June 2012.
- ^ Jim Wickwire (11 May 2010). Addicted to Danger: A Novel. Simon and Schuster. pp. 125–. ISBN 978-1-4391-1783-5. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
- ^ a b Wickwire; Bullitt; — p. 1-7.
- ^ Wickwire, James (1983). "The Great Couloir on Everest" (PDF). American Alpine Journal. Retrieved 2008-10-25.
- ^ a b c Jim Wickwire; Dorothy Bullitt (1 February 1999). Addicted to Danger: A Memoir About Affirming Life in the Face of Death. Simon and Schuster. pp. 167–. ISBN 978-0-671-01991-4. Retrieved 11 June 2012.
- ^ Wickwire, James (1983). "The Great Couloir on Everest" (PDF). American Alpine Journal. Retrieved 2008-10-25.
- ^ Wickwire, Jim & Bullitt, Dorothy C. (1998). Addicted to Danger: A Memoir about Affirming Life in the Face of Death. New York: Pocket Books. ISBN 0-671-01991-0.


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Rick Perry was everywhere, and he made some news with his pledge to rebel against the liberal establishment's various oppressions. This guy is definitely running for president. Remember the slow, almost catatonic Rick Perry of the debates? He's gone. The real Rick is back. Perry was energized, excited and, in small groups, seemed truly jazzed to meet and interact with people. The guy has a solid sense of how to campaign – he clearly loves it – and he was in full campaign mode.
Rand Paul was in full effect too, packing the auditorium for his speech on the second day. There were lots of "I Stand With Rand" stickers, and his supporters were all over the place. Paul could end up the conservative alternative to whatever washed-up moderate hack the panicking GOP Establishment tries to force down our throats in the primaries.
And speaking of Jeb Bush, he must have had a prior engagement.
But Chris Christie was there, and he had the biggest challenge of the attending potential candidates because the conservatives of CPAC largely dislike and distrust him. It was good to have him speak since, despite his recent troubles, there is a very real possibility he will be the nominee. Moreover, if he is the nominee (which is a huge "if"), he stands a pretty fair chance of beating Hillary. The left clearly thinks so – MSNBC wouldn't be stalking him like a deranged ex-girlfriend if Christie wasn't a threat.
Christie spoke on the first day, and it was commonly reported that he received a standing ovation coming in. That's technically correct, because some people stood and ovated, but a lot of people sat on their hands, both when he came in and when he left. And there were a lot of empty chairs in the room (You would have needed a can of grease and a crowbar to wedge yourself in when Rand Paul spoke).
Christie, a former trial lawyer, committed a cardinal error that one wouldn't normally expect from an experienced attorney. He didn't understand his jury and address his arguments to it. And there was a jury there to be sure. It was a jury of conservatives, and they were there to render judgment on him.
Chris Christie had to, so to speak, build a bridge to the conservative community. This was his opportunity to do it, and he didn't. His speech should have been directed to conservatives and have taken on the elephant in the room – we just don't like him and we don't trust him to be a real conservative. He wasn't going to win us over then and there, but he could have started the process of regaining our trust. After all, if you want to win the nomination of a party that's supposed to be conservative, you probably don't want your name to provoke a stream of obscenities any time a conservative hears it.
But instead, Christie's speech was just a recitation of basic Republican principles regarding small government and fiscal responsibility. The thing is, conservatives kind of expect that from a Republican. In fact, it was a bit patronizing – as was the reference to his pro-life views that kind of came out of left field, as if he thought that was going to make everything better. In the end, it seemed more like a routine speech to the Des Moines Lincoln Club than a gamechanger that reset his reputation with conservative activists.
That is not to say he didn't deliver it well. He did. But what Christie needed to say was, "Hey, I'm one of you. Maybe we don't agree on everything, maybe I offended you in the past, but I'm a friend, and let's make up." He didn't do that, and many conservatives sat on their hands when he got off stage.
The sad thing is for him that the "standing ovation" meme is going to be his takeaway. He no doubt thought he did great, maybe so great that he's mollified those conservatives and won't have to deal with them anymore. You get the impression from Christie that he probably doesn't surround himself with people who tell him things he doesn't want to hear. If he wants to win the nomination – and to stop getting engulfed in hugely unnecessary scandals – he probably ought to get himself an advisor who's not afraid to tell him "No."
One thing was clear, though – Chris Christie is running for president.
Oh, and the most surprising thing about CPAC this year? Mark Levin is really tall.
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The Christchurch earthquake has caused huge cracks in the ground. Slowly slowly nature is claiming it back.
Great presentation, the red just snaps. How are you my friend?
Pretty good - haven't done much photograhy this year as I've been in plaster with my foot. But aiming to head back to Europe next year for 6 weeks so looking forward to giving my camera a workout again
What happened to the foot? I know how it feels to be in a cast, especially when the legs or feet are involved. You can't move around well. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
I rolled it 2.5 years ago. 3 operation later I'm still limping and recovering. i hope the last op was the very last!
Glad to see you survived and are back with some beautiful images
I live about 5 hours from Christchurch, so although I felt the earthquake, it was very tiny here. They still have a long way to go to rebuild though
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London (AP) -- It's the kind of shortage that could leave any Army exposed.
It seems there aren't enough ceremonial kilts to go around when Scottish soldiers parade to the sound of the bagpipe.
At last count, there were just 320 kilts for more than 5,000 Scotsmen.
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Eco Factor: Sustainable treehouses have minimal impact on trees and the environment.
Mathieu Collos, a London-based architect has designed sustainable and green treehouses for those in love with the jungle. Dubbed as the "Ecocoons," the eco retreats are designed with a split level system. The treehouses are installed with the trunk as the heart. A unique pentagonal shape gives the structure all the strength it needs. Apart from caring for you in the middle of nowhere, the treehouses also care for the tree on which they are assembled. Unlike other treehouses which require the user to nail them in place, the Ecocoons are hung using steel cables, thereby minimizing the impact on the tree.
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Five-course dinner, $108; eight-course dinner, $148; twelve-course dinner, $218
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