“Are YOU born again?”
April 27, 2004
I don’t like the Christianese term born again.”
I had to laugh when in Traveling Mercies, Anne Lamott relates a story while in a plane, and a man reading a “hard-core right-wing paranoid anti-Semitic homophobic misogynistic propaganda” book about the Apocalypse (I think she was referring to a Left Behind novel) asked her, “Are you born [...]
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The Language of “Solid”
February 28, 2004
Language, language, language. What power do our words really carry? Will we ever know? I’m pondering the use of the phrase “solid Christian” or “solid believer” or…, just “solid.” I myself use the term sometimes when I’m describing someone; “oh, they are a solid Christian…” Whatever “solid Christian” means, we mean it as a good [...]
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Adam Walker Cleaveland: 
