It’s late spring as I write this, and Billy Graham has recently died and the United States is having a national reckoning with sexual abuse and exploitation. As it happens, there is a Christianese phrase that touches on both those points: the Billy Graham rule.
The January/February 2018 issue of Christianity Today hit newsstands this week, so let’s see what interesting Christian jargon and Christianese slang can be found in its pages.
Back in February I was interviewed by Alina Simone, a producer for the public radio program World in Words. We talked about Christianese in general and about my Dictionary of Christianese project in particular.
Christians sometime say that God is a “God of second chances.” Where did this saying come from, and what does it mean?
A “baby Christian” is a person who has recently converted to Christianity.
What sorts of Christianese words and phrases appeared in the June issue of Christianity Today? Let’s find out.