tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post7901304146720927051..comments2023-10-23T12:09:50.512-04:00Comments on Clergy Confidential: The New NarthexTim Schenckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13913584491460599491noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-27383873601406133572012-07-02T10:19:20.000-04:002012-07-02T10:19:20.000-04:00Popular with commentators and pundits of all sorts...Popular with commentators and pundits of all sorts, including preachers and psychologists: "Issues around." If you have issues "around" something, you are you are dancing "around" the issue and not confronting it. Get a middle-school English grammar book, review the chapter on prepositions, and when you are done, perhaps you can work begin to work "through" it, and get it "behind" you, like Satan.Elizabethnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-68173031627520444982012-07-02T08:29:39.000-04:002012-07-02T08:29:39.000-04:00Mercy! That's it.....just "Mercy!"...Mercy! That's it.....just "Mercy!"aleathia (Dolores) nicholsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-55562894807129759352012-07-02T16:40:57.000-04:002012-07-02T16:40:57.000-04:00;o) Here's mine: "That resonates with me....;o) Here's mine: "That resonates with me." Really? Do tuning forks run in your family?Gretchen R. WhoDat Chateauhttp://www.facebook.com/gretchen.r.chateaunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-53170381268899098972012-07-02T08:26:05.000-04:002012-07-02T08:26:05.000-04:00A couple of words and phrases that I just can'...A couple of words and phrases that I just can't stomach are: purposeful or purposefully...I think the correct word is purposely. Also signage...it's a sign...no "age." And newer now, which you hear TV news people use a lot...went missing. How do you "go missing?" You are just...missing! Instead of "he went missing on..." it's just "he's been missing since..." uhhhEvnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-17952840020595045472012-07-02T06:13:21.000-04:002012-07-02T06:13:21.000-04:00Use "liminal" and be prepared for a ques...Use "liminal" and be prepared for a question on the 39 Articles after the service. You know what I mean.Bob Chapmanhttp://gravatar.com/rrchapmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-53050198467441236082012-07-02T06:37:29.000-04:002012-07-02T06:37:29.000-04:00Bob, that reminds me of the "old days" w...Bob, that reminds me of the "old days" when bishops publicly interrogated candidates on the catechism before confirming them -- and then slapped them when they were "done!"revbranwenhttp://revbranwen.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-27450954408187329482012-07-02T16:25:29.000-04:002012-07-02T16:25:29.000-04:00Ohhh...I've got another one..."I've g...Ohhh...I've got another one..."I've got your back"...hah! Well, I guess that means we need to check our backsides in the full length mirror before we leave the house! I mean, if someone "has my back" I want it to look good...you know, sorta' like J-Lo's! ha!Evnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-37572043997719273452012-07-02T11:40:16.000-04:002012-07-02T11:40:16.000-04:00although such an action saves the justice system a...although such an action saves the justice system a great deal of time and money, I am tired of hearing "the gunman turned the gun on himself"Mariclairenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-9357904369936419872012-07-03T10:59:08.000-04:002012-07-03T10:59:08.000-04:00When I teach Sunday School I always play a game ca...When I teach Sunday School I always play a game called "Church Tag" - the class has a set period of time (which decreases over time, 'cos that's the kind of teacher I am) in which they run up to the board and label each of the parts of the church. This and Sondheim are the only reasons why I can correctly identify the apse.<br><br>Looking forward to singing at the convention on Sunday; bummed to miss Lent Madness. Any chance you'll extend it to Saturday?lemminghttp://lemmingsprogress.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-60588465462754293952012-07-14T13:53:58.000-04:002012-07-14T13:53:58.000-04:00. . . continuing on . . . -- why on, just continue.... . . continuing on . . . -- why on, just continue!<br>Note to Ev: maybe you have to be from a place where you are or were liable to be shot in the back. It makes sense where I grew up!Sister Mary Winifredhttp://www.sistermarywinifred.comnoreply@blogger.com