The options have been kicking around in my head for a few days now. What will my one word for 2015 be? I hopped on the OneWord365 train a couple of years ago with the word compassion, and while I didn’t blog about it often, it was impactful. Learning to have compassion towards myself that year was…
I had a young friend, a long time ago, who would start her prayers at the end of the day in one of two ways: “Dear God, thank you for a good (great, awesome) day today.” or “God… This was not the best day in the world.” It still makes me laugh a little, the…
In case you are just catching this series, I’d like to take a minute to backtrack a bit, because the past few posts I’ve written lay some important groundwork for this conversation. I started by talking about the distinctions between gossip, slander, and information, and how to discern into which of those categories an article or…
Last week, I started talking about the differences between gossip, slander, and information, particularly in regards to “famous” Christians, and how to determine which category what you’re reading about them might fall into. Then I talked a little bit about the implications of those definitions for the way that we respond when we read something about a “scandal”…
Earlier this week, I talked about the differences between gossip, slander, and information (and threw in a seemingly random definition for advice); today I’d like to talk about the implications of these definitions for how we should respond when we hear “news” about famous church people, particularly when that “news” involves some sort of “scandal” or “outrage.” Here’s…
