Last month I was talking to an 80-year old gentleman I know quite well. He’s bright, cultured, active, and very combative about aging and the whole notion of death. He is also no fan of “the religious.” And yet, last year he chose to fly to Spain for his annual hike and walk the CaminoContinue reading “We Have A Lot of Unloading to Do”
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Honesty Needed
I need your help! I’m doing some research in preparation for a presentation on Loaded Words next month. I would like the answers to these 10 basic questions to reflect a wide range of opinions and beliefs—so if you’d like to share the link, by all means, please do. The survey is short, anonymous, andContinue reading “Honesty Needed”
A faithful response
“Orthodoxy moves, because times change. It is not a matter of always saying the same thing in the same way, but of responding faithfully to our changing setting as our ancestors did to theirs.” Brian McLaren
Words Matter
“We live in an era that is reliant on words, but our words are no longer reliable.” So it says in the opening chapter of Loaded Words, setting the foundation for the book itself. How can we know what anyone means when they choose to use a certain word? Are they choosing it for clarity? Manipulation?Continue reading “Words Matter”
Heather Choate Davis 