Heretickle: Popular falsehoods that are happily accommodated for the sake of church growth. Heterodoctor: A thoroughly modern and politically-correct university professor. Hillarious: A silly, shallow, superfluous, and statisfucating worldview. Histonarcolepsy: Sleep-walking through history. Historectomy: The surgical removal of any historical perspective from contemporary discussions. Hollywired: The marriage of the computer and entertainment industries. Homodoxy: The new homosexual orthodoxy taught in America’s schools Homophilia: Trendy depravity. Homotextuality: The …
G Logomorphs
Gadaboutag: An orphan HTML tag that’s misdirects your web searches. Garpage: The editorial page of virtually all daily metropolitan newspapers; often useful, however, for the bottoms of bird cages. Generica: The smothering uniformity of pop American culture. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high on a bridge or a building. Gleemail: Those inspirational emails forwarded by a friend or coworker that may or may …
F Logomorphs
Fascinate: Enthusiasm for consolidating all of society and culture into the hands of Big Government and Big Business—the tell-tale signs of Mercantilism (aka National Socialism). Fascindustrialism: Cooperative monopolization between the public and private sectors; “It’s the economy, stupid.” Fauxment: An artificial controversy; the stock and trade of TV news. Fauxpolitiks: The dismal reduction of political discourse to the trite, the picayune, and the …
Even More E Logomorphs
Empty-Vee: The vapid contentlessness and valuelessness of current TV programming. Environmentia: A worldview dominated by whatever the latest ideological rant may be. Errstats: Lies, damned lies, and statistics. Establishmentality: The inability to think beyond accepted institutional/ideological parameters. Ethoplegic: A malady that suddenly paralyzes the ethical scruples of elected officials once they arrive in Washington. Europa Nervosa: A condition resulting from the geo-political instability of Europe. Europhoria: The ecstatic …
E Logomorphs
Ecclesiophobia: An inordinate fear of anything and everything to do with the church or people from the church actually getting involved in our communities. Ecnalubma: A rescue vehicle which can only be seen in the rearview mirror. Ecologian: A theologian whose worldview is dominated by the world. Ecominous: The doomsaying vision of pessimistic economists. Econausea: One possible side-effect of an over-exposure to sundry …
D Logomorphs
Datadiddling: The digital manipulation of facts. Deatherapy: The medicalization of murder. Demigraphics: A poorly composed, wretchedly distracting PowerPoint presentation. Demockeracy: Making a mockery of constitutional freedoms and liberties in the name of constitutional freedoms and liberties. Designosaurs: Perpetuators of bad, out-dated design. Destinesia: Arriving at a destination but having forgotten why you went in the first place. Dipsomanagerial: The insatiable, often periodic craving of government …
C Logomorphs
Cacophantasy: The noisome notions of mindless debauchery that pass for “having a good time” among the young and restless. Celefeign: Someone who is famous for being famous—a celebrity with no discernable talent. Cleresy: Religious error perpetrated under the cloak of respectible clerical authority. Codependustry: The therapeutic industry that has been built up around the specious notions of pop-psychology. Compascism: Coercive pseudo-compassion—another name for our …
B Logomorphs
Begathon: Online, Cable TV, or Radio fund-raiser—a guilt and pity party. Bitnik: A hyper-hip computer nerd—the postmodern version of a beatnik. Blandiose: A grandiose blandness—a seemingly incurable malady that afflicts the minds of politicians on both sides of the aisle. Blamestorming: The modern rant of Facebook rants and talk radio call-in shows. Bloatocratic: The ever expanding bureaucracy in Washington. Blockbluster: The hype …
A Logomorphs
Academentia: The pathogenic moral and intellectual epidemic that currently ravages most politically-correct campuses. Accordionated: Being able to drive and refold a road map at the same time. Adhocracy: The modern tendency to govern on the basis of whim rather than on the basis of law—especially evident in the rulings of federally appointed judicial activists. Affluential: To shamelessly utilize great wealth for personal …
The Hellfire of Edwards
Jonathan Edwards traveled a few miles from his home into western Connecticut and read to a small congregation assembled there the most famous sermon ever delivered in the history of America on this day in 1741. Entitled Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God, its subject was the immanence of judgment and the horrors of perdition. It was about what …
Promises, Promises
“His divine power has granted to us all things that we need for life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us to His own glory and goodness, by which He has granted to us His very great and precious promises.” (2 Peter 1:3-4)
My Country Tis of Thee
During his long and productive ministry, Samuel Francis Smith composed nearly two hundred hymns. But it is for one he wrote while still in seminary that he was best known. Musician Lowell Mason had asked him to translate some German verses for a song book he was preparing. Among the tunes he handed Smith was a German patriotic hymn, God …
A Proper Multiculturalism
Here is a beautiful example of a proper multiculturalism courtesy of an Orange County Register op-ed piece by Mark Steyn: From 1842 to 1849, General Sir Charles Napier was the Commander of the British Army in India. The Hindu priests had long observed a custom of burning widows alive on their husband’s funeral pyre. The British had already stopped that custom. When the …