(Reading Time:
3 minutes)“It’s in there!” What started as a 1984 commercial for spaghetti sauce unintentionally inspired two different definitions for “Prego Christian”!
food
Alka-Seltzer Christian
(Reading Time:
2 minutes)“Plop plop, fizz fizz!” Alka-Seltzer Christians are all fun and games… until they disappear without a trace!
pot blessing, and other potluck words
(Reading Time:
6 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.
prayer breakfast
(Reading Time:
2 minutes)I heard this week that two luminaries of the Christian community recently died: Thomas Kinkade and Chuck Colson. In Chuck’s memory, I’m sharing the current definition of prayer breakfast, which features Colson in the quotations for 1973 and 1976. Read on…
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…