Church & Proper Grammar
It has been a minute (that is the modern phrase meaning "quite a long time" - and - I don't get it) since I have written something on this blog. Well, something piqued my interest (got under my skin) enough to finally have something to write. OK, first an admission. I am probably not the one who should sit down and write a piece that extols the correct use of grammar. Why? Well, I may have been an elementary educator who taught English grammar a "minute ago" (back in the 1980s), my current written use of English grammar is done in order to give me cues to reading what I have written as the preached Word in the context of the sermon. So, my writing is not usually academic in any fashion. However, for what I want to address in this short missive, it does not matter. I have two issues to bring to the fore. Neither of these are theological issues, but they are issues that arise in the church. And (IMOHO), they are issues that need to be addressed. Personally, I do...