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Saturday, January 24, 2009

No Other Name

People wondered if Rick Warren would pray in Jesus' name at the inauguration. Unlike Joel Hunter's "on-the-count-of-three" conclusion to his prayer at the DNC, Warren closed in Jesus' name--in in four languages. Christianity Today offered a "a handy cheat sheet if you want to outdo him while saying grace tonight"--

Arabic, Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz: EE-sa
Aramaic: EEE-sho
Bengali, Hindi, Korean, Japanese, Swahili: ye-su
Burmese: ye-SHOO
English: GEE-zes
German: YAY-sus
Hebrew: YESH-yoo-ah
Mandarin: yay-soo
Russian, Greek: ee-SOOS
Spanish, Quechua: he-SOOS
Welsh: ye-SEE
Yoruba, Zulu: GEE-soo

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