A word in your ear can carry more meaning than you might notice

Mike Shea has reproduced George Orwell's classic 1946 essay Politics and the English Language.

It shows up just how much many people (especially politicians, it seems) use certain phrases and idioms to produce in our minds the images and implications they want us to hear, without actually coming out and saying it directly. Our society tolerates sloppy language and the sloppy thinking that is behind it, and we are the worse for it, because the jargon can conceal an awful lot of truth.

A joy to read

A "display of ritualized sexual tension so blatant it makes one tempted to call an anthropologist." - Aaron Swartz on Stanford's "Secret Snowflake" rituals.

He's good. He's very good.

But then we've known that for years.

God is kind but he's not soft

Romans 2 has so much in it.

I'm studying Romans through February as part of our church's "Year of Living Generously."

"Real Life for those who work on God's side" - verse 7

At the moment, I am inspired.