(Reading Time:
6 minutes)“Creation Care” sounds like it could be a brand name, and in a way it is. It’s a sly evangelical euphemism for the word “environmentalism.”
euphemisms
Bedside Baptist, St. Mattress
(Reading Time:
13 minutes)Have you been to Bedside Baptist or St. Mattress on a Sunday morning? These are clever ways of saying that you slept in and missed church!
St. Arbucks
(Reading Time:
2 minutes)Have you worshiped at “St. Arbucks” on a Sunday morning? Read on…
pot blessing, and other potluck words
(Reading Time:
5 minutes)In the South it used to be called dinner-on-the-ground, but more and more you hear people calling it pot-blessing or pot-providence. I’m referring of course to the potluck dinner.
fall festival, and other halloween words
(Reading Time:
3 minutes)Does your church throw a “fall festival” on October 31 and invite the entire neighborhood over for some good, clean fun?
tooth angel
(Reading Time:
1 minute)Somewhat below Santa Claus on the list of things Christian parents worry about is whether to tell the kids about the tooth fairy or the tooth angel…
doubled eggs
(Reading Time:
3 minutes)Well, speak of the devil… actually, belay that. The operative principle today is don’t speak of the devil. At least when it comes to doubled eggs instead of deviled eggs…