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October 2013

October 08, 2013

Self-interest vs. ideology

Is it better in the realm of politics to stand on principle or to pursue...

September 2013

September 30, 2013

Keeping and remembering everything

In a discussion of memory, the internet, and our impulse to document every moment of...

September 06, 2013

“So what’s your name and preferred gender pronoun?”

According to a new code of etiquette, it's not enough to ask someone's name. You...

September 05, 2013

The contemporary theologian we need?

Oswald Bayer, emeritus professor of theology at the University of Tübingen, is a widely-respected thinker...

September 05, 2013

Birds as Bloggers

Researchers often tag birds and other animals so that their movements and activities can be...

August 2013

August 27, 2013

The Lutheran roots of Radical Orthodoxy

Not long ago we posted about the theological and philosophical movement known as Radical Orthodoxy,...

August 12, 2013

A word-based management style

Nervous Washington Post employees are wondering what life will be like under their new boss,...

July 2013

July 25, 2013

King George VII

The royal baby has been named: George Alexander Louis. If all goes well for the...

July 19, 2013

Opposing the word “religion”

Michelle Boorstein writes in the Washington Post about how virtually everybody--liberals and conservatives, New Agey...

June 2013

June 13, 2013

“The least untruthful manner”

James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, had been asked in a Congressional committee if...

May 2013

May 13, 2013

What is a nation?

As college classes, including my own, conclude for the Summer, I will reveal an academic...

May 06, 2013

Benching sports metaphors

Figures of speech are not just ornamentation. They can shape the way we think about...

April 2013

April 19, 2013

Swimming the Elbe

Those who convert to Catholicism are said to have "swum the Tiber," referring to the...

April 05, 2013

From spam to bacn

I have learned a new word, though I'm quite familiar with the reality. From BBC...

March 2013

March 29, 2013

Easter was NOT based on a pagan holiday

(This is a re-run from this blog in 2011, but it still needs to be...

March 25, 2013

Whoville vs. Whomville

The always amusing Alexandra Petri of the Washington Post writes about allegations that the word...

February 2013

February 23, 2013

What to call Washington’s football team?

I usually cast a jaundiced eye at efforts to change the name of sports teams...

January 2013

January 17, 2013

Jesus and other punsters

The BBC has a wonderful article by Sally Davies on puns, basically a review of...

January 16, 2013

Pro-whatever-the-situation-is

Planned Parenthood is finding that the label "pro-choice" is too limiting and is searching for...

January 11, 2013

The new signature on our currency

President Obama has nominated his chief of staff, Jack Lew, to be the new Treasury...

January 01, 2013

Resolve not to use these words in 2013

The problem with slang is that it goes out of fashion as quickly as it...

December 2012

December 11, 2012

How to interpret “kill Americans”

The South Korean rapper Psy--whose "Gangnam Style" goofy dance moves have become the top YouTube...

December 06, 2012

Words Of The Year

Merriam Webster, the dictionary publisher with a big online presence, has announced the most looked-up...

December 03, 2012

He comes to us

advent (n.) "important arrival," 1742, an extended sense of Advent "season before Christmas" (Old English),...

November 2012

November 01, 2012

The new normal

In the sermon for last Sunday, Pastor Douthwaite employed an interesting turn of phrase: There’s...

October 2012

October 24, 2012

A new name for God?

From Methodist minister Chris Brundage at Christian Century: I have a new name for God,...

October 12, 2012

Accurate language for abortion

This “Life Quote” from Lutherans For Life was in our bulletin Sunday, strong words from...

October 09, 2012

Constructivist politics

Postmodernists, who believe that truth is relative, reject such retro concepts as logic, evidence, and...

October 05, 2012

Connected TV dramas as the new novel

Since the time of the ancient Greeks, a dramatic production seldom lasts much more than...

September 2012

September 17, 2012

Trash talk

Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler illustrates why talking trash against an opponent is not wise. ...