Before there was "swag" there was "Quagswag," and the world was a better place for it. Learn these nine old-timey funny words and never be labeled a hoddypeak again!
Why I'm sometimes found in a coffee shop for sermon-prep.
I regularly watch John Stewart's The Daily Show, but I also draw my news from a wide variety of sources. There are actually people whose only source of news is late-night comedy monologues and Comedy Central mock news programs. Denny Burk wants such people to know that the highly-edited "interviews" on The Daily Show "are nothing more than an entertaining form of propaganda, and it matters very little to them who they trample under foot for the act."
"The full story of Rivera’s career is unmistakably a story about faith." Read Lisa Miller's longform NYT piece about the legendary and soon-to-retire Yankee closer, Mariano Rivera.
How many replicas of Noah's Ark are there? More than I thought.
"Christians who condone premarital sex, either explicitly or tacitly, have no principled reason to object to homosexual activity....We cannot take a morally credible stand against the sexual sins of the small minority of the population if we condone the sexual sins favored by over 90% percent of the population. If fornication is okay, if casual divorce is no big deal, then it rings utterly hollow to try to take a loud (or even a quiet) stand on homosexual behavior." Jerry Walls, HBU
"If the church is going to call gay and lesbian men and women to deny their sexual desires for life, then it must be willing to embrace them as brothers and sisters and walk alongside them on the long road of chastity. Humans...can live without sex. But they will die without love" (CT article).
"Human-rights movements have traditionally existed to help the voiceless and those without agency gain progressively more rights. Yet in the case of abortion, the voiceless have progressively lost rights at the hands of people who claim to be human-rights crusaders." Kirsten Powers explains why she doesn't stand with Wendy--nor do most women.
"It really surprised me to find out that the supposedly "literal" versions are often not literal in places where they could have been. There is also a surprising number of places where the intentionally nonliteral versions actually end up closer to a word-for word rendering....I don't think anyone is intentionally trying to mislead. But when Bible scholars call a translation "word for word," they know that cannot possibly mean that every word in the translation matches every word from the original. The term "word for word" is unfortunate. To the average English-speaking Bible reader who has no access to the original languages, it implies a higher degree of correspondence with the original than is true of any English version" (Bible translator Dave Brunn, discussing translations like the ESV and NASB that claim to be "literal" or "word for word" as opposed to those like the NIV and the CEV that go for "thought for thought." Read the rest.)
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