Archive for September, 2006

The Taint of an Original Sin

Sunday, September 17th, 2006

I’ve appropriated another subtitle for this post, this time from a book by E. Luther Copeland. His book deals with the history of an American Protestant denomination. His thesis was extremely intriguing and is not impacted by what I discuss here.
While discussing a fairly controversial subject — women in the church [...]

Stop Calling me That!

Sunday, September 3rd, 2006

Someone else described me as “sweet” last week. As far as I am concerned that is blatantly false. I know I am not sweet.
“Sweet” is the sort of word that makes only rare guest appearances in my own speech about others, but I do regularly describe people as “good” or “bad”. And so does the [...]