Sad news: Doyle Chadwick has died
I’m heartbroken to announce the death of a frequent commenter and friend to this site, Doyle Chadwick. I’ve just received the following information in an email from a friend at TN RTL. Doyle was from Knoxville:
He died in a rough plane landing today after taking a pro-life dad and two of this children for a ride. The 3 passengers are at home with little to no injuries – miraculous. Please pray for God’s mercy because Doyle always described himself as an atheist or agnostic.
The photo is from Doyle’s Facebook page.
This is so upsetting and just another reminder that man knows not his time.
I extend our condolences and prayers to Doyle’s family.
Oct.18, 2009 8:19 pm |
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
What a terrible shock to hear of Doyle’s passing. He will be missed!
May he rest in peace.
Oh my goodness!!! I can’t believe it. How terribly, terribly sad…
I will definitely miss him.
Here is another picture of Doyle (from the Who’s Who page we used to have):
Oh my goodness, this is so upsetting. I’ll miss him terribly. My thoughts are with his loved ones.
My deepest sympathy to Doyle’s loved ones during this time of bereavement.
This certainly comes as a shock to us. My sincerest condolensces to Mr. Chadwick’s family.
How awful! My condolences to Doyle’s family.
I’m so shocked and saddened to hear this. Praying for Doyle’s loved ones.
How horribly shocking and terribly sad. Thank you Jill for posting this. My prayers are with all of those who loved and knew him. I loved to read Doyle’s posts. His love for the unborn really showed.
“Please pray for God’s mercy because Doyle always described himself as an atheist or agnostic.”
Although it’s a nice sentiment, we cannot pray for those who have passed. We can only HOPE that Doyle made his decision to believe in Jesus before his death.
Romans 10:9
That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
I wish I would have known Doyle personally.
My condolences and prayers for Doyle’s family, as well as all of us on JillStanek.com that knew Doyle and shared his passion for life.
Isa 50:2 Why, when I came, was there no man? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Is My hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver?… AMP
1 Tim 5:24-25 24 The sins of some men are conspicuous (openly evident to all eyes), going before them to the judgment [seat] and proclaiming their sentence in advance; but the sins of others appear later [following the offender to the bar of judgment and coming into view there].
25 So also, good deeds are evident and conspicuous, and even when they [the good deeds]are not, [conspicuous] they cannot remain hidden [indefinitely]. AMP
Rest in peace, o valiant warrior.
yor bro ken
Marie,
I don’t think this is the place to make a judgement on Doyle’s soul. He stood up for the most innocent of us all – the unborn. Now, seriously, who are we to put a limit on God’s mercy?
From Psalm 136 in the Bible – “God’s mercy endures forever”.
Since I am Catholic, I will pray for Doyle’s family, but I will also pray for Doyle. I believe “there’s a wideness in God’s mercy…” and there are things we just don’t know.
Rosemary in Missouri
Janet,
Where did I make ANY kind of judgement on Doyle’s soul?
I’m so sad to hear about Doyle’s passing. I really enjoyed reading his posts.
Marie @ 10:14,
Forgive me. Apparently I misunderstood your comment.
Janet,
No problem. I think the misunderstaning comes from our difference in beliefs about prayers for those who have already passed.
I believe in God’s mercy. Look at our nation. God is being VERY merciful to us now.
I also believe in the powerful blood that was shed by Jesus on the cross. If God were merciful to those who have passed that didn’t believe in Jesus, He would never have had Jesus die that horrific way He did. We would just simply say a prayer for everyone who has passed, (past, present and future) and the Work of the Cross would be irrelevent. Think about it.
This comes as a sad surprise. My respect and memory to him and condolences to his loved ones and other friends.
this is awful news. I will miss him very much…
my condolences to Doyle’s family.
As a Catholic we can, and I will, pray for Doyle’s soul.
My Jesus, by the sorrows Thou didst suffer in Thine agony in the Garden, in Thy scourging and crowning with thorns, in the way to Calvary, in Thy crucifixion and death, have mercy on the souls in purgatory, and especially on those that are most forsaken; do Thou deliver them from the dire torments they endure; call them and admit them to Thy most sweet embrace in paradise.
Rest in peace.
I am in shock. I loved Doyle’s comments and getting to know him here. Praying for all of us, especially Doyle’s family.
What a tragic loss.
May his example inspire us to carry on and do all we can for the unborn and our King while we still have breath.
Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
Doyle was a warm, understanding person. He said that he liked Pro-life people; “You can trust them”, he said. And being one himself, he met a lot of them. He took part in pro-life events in many parts of the country.
He will be missed in Knoxville.
Marie–right on! There is no judgement here on Doyle’s soul. We just don’t know what he believed and what his relationship with God was. But Marie is right, its too late to pray for him now. The Bible says, its is appointed unto man ONCE to die, and AFTER THAT THE JUDGMENT.
I WILL however pray for his family who I’m sure are hurting terribly right now. I hope they know all the loving thoughts and prayers coming their way right now.
I will remember him in my prayers.
God bless you Doyle. Thank you for standing up for the unborn.
Doyle’s last comment here was two days ago. In his memory I just wanted to post his comments from October:
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John: “Shouldn’t we try education rather than forcing people.” No. We’ve been trying to “educate” people since 1973, and it hasn’t worked. As one of my personal heroes once said: “Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless”. -Dr. Martin Luther King
Pro-Life Atheist: “I know you Christians aren’t big on it, but geez…CLEAN HOUSE!” If only it was that simple, PLA. I’m agnostic myself, but I work with Christians (mostly Catholics) all the time in my Pro-Life activism. And I can tell you there is no way to “clean house” for the PL movement in general, or Christianity in general. The best we can do is to counter their “arguments” as often as we see them, and hope others will see what we see.
Idiotic editiorials like the one by Danielle Zelisko at Sonoma State provide us with a great opportunity to express the PL POV, if they allow comments. And they also demonstrate the extreme willingness of proaborts to accept and adopt lies, half-truths, and outrageously illogical claims to support their affection for baby killing. Any student possessed of basic, minimal intellectual honesty can see the multitude of errors in their utterances.
The suppression of speech is the most basic of all proabort tactics. “Might makes right” is their bottom line. And why not? They justify the killing of babies that way, too.
Here’s an outstanding video on abortion, by the folks at covenant news: http://www.covenantnews.com/blog/archives/060929.html
On the NYT website it says “Comments are no longer being accepted” on this article. I am only guessing, but I suspect that the fact that the NYT is in danger of bankruptcy may be behind their sudden “thirst for the truth”. If so, may more and more such rags be faced with such dangers.
Ironically, Barry may be the catalyst for the greatest war the earth has ever seen….. and soon.
xalisae…. Yep. Obama is the “enabler” of such lunatics as A-Jad and Kim-is-ILL. By cowtowing to them, he empowers them to take reckless actions that will lead to the outbreak of war. As long as he is perceived as a weak president, they will grow bolder and bolder.
Vannah, I know what you mean about the politics of the abortion issue. I’m agnostic, and relatively liberal on many other issues. I’m politically independent. But it’s undeniable that I’m a part of a relatively small minority among “liberals”. And that, IMO, is evidence of the human folly of playing “follow the herd” in politics. So many people treat politics as if it was like being a member of a fraternity or sorority. They focus on the “unity of the group” more than on forming honest individual opinions, and thereby take up what they perceive as “group positions” on many issues, even if it requires them to betray their true feelings on a particular subject. It’s sad but true that all social and political groups have many members who are only there in order to “fit in with the crowd”. Thankfully, there are a few of us who swim against the current, and don’t follow the herd.
kmann: I must respectfully disagree with you. Those who say such things (as “blob of cells”}, IMO, are simply rationalizing their actions with what they know {but will not admit they know} to be a lie. They are making excuses that they know to be untrue. As far as “desensitizing” anyone, why is that even a consideration? If anyone is capable of being desensitized to the sight of an aborted baby, we have no chance of reaching them with ANY message. No, it is far more important, IMO, to try to reach those with a healthy conscience by showing them what abortion does to a baby, than to worry about those who become “desensitized”. I have seen the graphic images reach people’s hearts instantly, I know they work for the good of the unborn.
Our constitution forbids retroactive punishment, but other than that each state is free to set and impose criminal penalties as it sees fit, more or less. That is also the case with illegal abortion. To say that an illegal elective abortion is a “victimless crime” would be a whopper of a lie. And since there IS a victim, there ought to be a consequence to all those who caused that death. Further, DIY abortions may be the “wave of the future”, especially when elective abortion is once again illegal. So we’d better get used to the fact that without some kind of punishment, a DIY abortion cannot be discouraged.
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Thank you, Doyle, for standing for life.
Like Marie said earlier, I hope and pray that Doyle found Jesus. I would love to meet him in Heaven one day.
Marie, on some other thread where I feel less inappropriate having this conversation, I would love to hear more about your views on prayer as related to time. I always thought, when I was a Christian, that it was impossible to constrain God’s will, mercy, etc to human concepts of time, and thus that it was possible to pray for someone after they had died, because that prayer would be part of the overall, non-linear network of prayers pulling for that person.
Is a prayer ever wasted, in your opinion? Do you think that “unneeded” prayers – for people who are already dead, for things that have already come to pass, etc – go unheard, or redirected, or what, etc? I am curious. I don’t know that this is an appropriate place to debate the value of certain prayers but I would love to hear more about your views at some point. I’ll need you to remind me because I’m not around much right now.
I apologize if anyone views my questions as out of line. Mods are welcome to delete them if anyone is offended.
Bethany,
Thanks so much for posting Doyle’s comment. I’m so shook up and distressed. Our online community here has lost a real friend. This sad experience is helping me appreciate more than ever the friendship relationships established here.
May God have mercy on Doyle – as he does on me, such an undeserving sinner. Thank you, Doyle – for speaking for those who are not given a voice, or life, here on this very flawed planet…
Merciful God – receive your servant!
Goodbye, Doyle. You were always kind and compassionate. Rest in peace. We’ll all miss you and keep your family in our thoughts.
:(
Alexendra….I know your comment was for Marie. But I just wanted to say, God is NOT constrained by time. You are correct on that. But we are. God created time and we as humans are constrained by it. God also respects time. You see that in the Genesis account of creation. God follows time as it pertains to human affairs.
Prayer also moves God. “The prayers of a righteous man availeth much” the Bible says. But once a person has died his/her chance to affect the course of his/her life is over. Once a person dies their decision to trust Jesus for salvation or trust themselves for salvation is permanent and nothing can affect that. If someone on their deathbed says “No! I will NOT put my trust in Jesus alone for salvation. I am trusting XYZ for my salvation.” and that person dies and goes to hell then you praying for that person’s soul is not going to change the past and the fact that at death that person rejected Christ.
Its like someone who has an abortion and then asks God “God forgive me for aborting my baby!” God WILL FORGIVE. He says in His Bible that He will. But that prayer does not take the abortion away or undo the past. He no longer holds that sin against us when we confess it to Him but the effects of the abortion (cancer, infertility, emotional stress) still exist. Prayer moves the hand of God for the future not the past.
I also would like to hear what Marie thinks. Sorry to butt in!
On Doyle’s facebook page, his daughter has posted this comment:
Thank you for your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time. I know that dad would appreciate them. -Christy
Sorry to hear about Doyle’s passing.
He was passionate and committed. Admirable traits.
I’m with Rosemary in Missouri and Kristen, I will pray for Doyle’s soul (As a Catholic I can).
Oh no! That is so terrible :( He will be truly missed.
My thoughts are with Doyle’s family during this time of grieving.
Please clarify: this “rough plane landing”.
Does this mean it experienced turbulence, landed with a few bumps, and his body couldn’t take it? Or was it a crash?
My heart goes out to all of the Chadwicks.
I didn’t know him or know of him, but I’m still sorry to hear about this.
“But Marie is right, its too late to pray for him now. The Bible says, its is appointed unto man ONCE to die, and AFTER THAT THE JUDGMENT.”
I’m not one of those people who can cite the Bible easily; does it ever specify that the judgment is immediately after death?
Prayers for Doyle, with whom I had a good association elsewhere on the internet.
He IS a good guy, and for sure he now knows why I use the present tense all the time in this circumstance. My hope is in God’s peaceful conclusion to Doyle’s searchings.
Lotta remembering, these days. So many pals and relatives have been going “home” lately.
Aw. I liked that guy. I’m all upset–I feel real sympathy for his family, and I hope they’re doing okay. I’ll miss him.
I am soory to hear of Doyle’s death. My condolences to his family. I enjoyed his post on this blog.
Here, I found the article on the plane crash…
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/oct/18/faa-one-killed-plane-crash-oliver-springs/?partner=popular
Here are some more news articles…
Update: Pilot, passengers IDed in fatal crash
http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=102145&catid=2
Crash landing in OS claims pilot’s life
http://www.oakridger.com/news/x1801871084/Plane-crash-in-Oliver-Springs-1-dead
Anderson sheriff says mushy landing strip, crosswind contributed to fatal plane crash
http://www.wreg.com/sns-ap-tn–planecrash,0,4060611.story
Ok Mods, I’ve got a post in moderation with links to news articles on the plane crash.
Rachael, just posted it for you. I found one with more pictures of the plane too…how tragic.
http://diamondpilots.blogspot.com/2009/10/n7906w-piper-pa-28-180-cherokee-b.html
Alexandra,
Sydney M. posted a great reply to your question.
(Sydney M at October 19, 2009 10:51 AM)
THANKS, SYNDEY! :)
(Alexandra) I’m sorry you’re not around that much, I enjoy reading your posts! I would enjoy discussing your question more in depth with you in the future!
I’d just like to add one thing at this point: There is nothing…NOTHING that WE can do to earn salvation for ourselves or others. It is what Jesus did. To believe this is part of a “free-will choice” that each person makes, and it is the responsibility of the individual (not a group).
(Romans 10:10) For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. (Only an individual can do this)
People will always talk about our choice to believe in God comes from God giving us “free will”. Until, of course, it comes to praying for the salvation of the dead. Suddenly, free will isn’t up to the individual anymore, it’s up to what someone else wants for that person. It’s hypocritical, in my opinion.
I’ll talk to you later, Alexandra! Take care!
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Thank you for the links Rachael and Bethany. So hard to see the plane. :(
Still praying for comfort and peace for Doyle’s family.
Marie,
As a Catholic, I still stand by my belief that we must trust in God’s mercy after our death. As you said, salvation is a gift from God, and as there is nothing we can do to merit salvation for ourselves. Therefore, it must follow that there are no words that can be confessed which ALONE will guarantee salvation. I am proud to be a part of the Catholic Church which believes in God’s mercy. You may (or may not) be interested in reading the Diary of Maria Faustina Kowalska some day. For those who are interested, Faustina, a Polish nun, visionary, and mystic, received apparitions of Jesus and Mary and was directed to keep a diary to relay the message of Divine Mercy to the world. The feast of Divine Mercy is celebrated in the Catholic liturgical year on the Sunday after Easter.
Alexandra,
I pretty much agree with you – God’s mercy (and love) are impossible to constrain, and prayers are never wasted.
How tragic and sad. I’m praying for Doyle’s loved ones & trusting in the One who knows all.
May the merciful Jesus grant you eternal peace, Doyle, for defending the lives of the least among us.
I will miss him.
Posted by: Janet at October 20, 2009 1:23 PM
“As you said, salvation is a gift from God, and as there is nothing we can do to merit salvation for ourselves. Therefore, it must follow that there are no words that can be confessed which ALONE will guarantee salvation.”
How do you figure? Words come from faith – from the heart. Now, if you tell me that you disregard Romans 10:9 as a blatant lie, I will shut up.
It says:
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Janet…is this a lie?
You said,
“I am proud to be a part of the Catholic Church which believes in God’s mercy.”
And I am truly humbled to be called to be a child of God. I did nothing to deserve it. God was merciful to send His only begotten Son to die on the cross for my sins that I was born with, and because I believe in Him, I have eternal life. I am saved because I believe in what Jesus did on the cross because God loves me and is merciful to me.
And I also believe that prayers are not wasted. God hears and answers every prayer. HOWEVER, it’s not always the answer we expected or wanted. I prayed in the past many times to win the lottery. It didn’t happen. I guess it wasn’t part of God’s plan for me. God created a perfect plan for salvation, though. It was “finished” when Jesus died on the cross and rose again the third day. It was complete. There was nothing more that God could have done to make it so easy for us to accept.
I don’t know if you read the part in my post about free-will or not, Janet, but I’d really like to know what you think about it.
Oh my gosh. I totally missed this when it was first posted. I’m in complete shock. I don’t know what to say other than he will be very missed.
Marie,
Of course I’m not saying you are lying! In a way, I regret that I went down this road because it is such a complicated topic and I don’t have the time or inclination to discuss this now. We are at very different places in our faith, so I would hope we could agree to disagree for now. I would prefer to see this thread as a tribute to our fellow pro-lifer, Doyle, who will be sorely missed by all of us. God bless you, and God bless Doyle!
A very sad loss indeed. There was something remarkable about this man. He had more good in him than most i’ve ever heard of. I will remember him.
Janet,
I agree to disagree. BTW, I think you’re a wonderful person, Janet!
I’m really going to miss reading Doyle’s posts.
Again, I wish I would have known him personally.
:(
This pro-life/atheist is sad to see my comrade-in-disbelief go, but I think we can all be assured that he educated and inspired many, many people with his stance over the years. His legacy will remain
I haven’t really been able to respond to this post because I haven’t had the words.
I suppose I should just say my sincere condolences to Doyle’s family. I’m sorry to know that we will not have his insightful comments on this blog in the future. I’ve enjoyed reading what he has had to say in the past. I will be praying for Doyle, for God’s mercy (for ALL of us), and for Doyle’s family.