Tag Archives: english

It's All About Who You Know

"Adam lay with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, 'With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man.'" (NIV) "Now the man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, 'I have gotten a manchild with […]

More Unclean Lips

The subject of cursing seems to be a favorite among Christian bloggers. Rather than repeat myself, I'll point you to this and this.

Unclean Lips Redux

As I was cleaning out old email, I found a comment Steven Nicoloso made regarding cursing. Since this topic was recently addressed here, I thought I'd share the comment. "What I'd propose is a four-ary breakdown, a spectrum, of Dangerous Words, recognizing of course that even the strongest […]

Unclean Lips

Joe Carter at Evangelical Outpost has written a post about the use of foul language by Christians. "According to a profile in Christianity Today entitled 'The Positive Prophet,' the liberal evangelical Tony Campolo would often begin a speech by saying:" 'I have three things I'd like to say today. First, […]

Indult Masses

[I revised this post on 11/20 to remove some uncharitable statements. I apologize if they offended anyone. - Funky] This made me chuckle: "Some people are making a lot of noise about how disruptive [changes to the English Mass] will be. Perhaps. But what I think we're seeing is mainly the nostalgic response of […]