This picks up the question the last post left open — When Words Move. Out here I’m always saying it: the right tool for the job. When you use tools every day, quality matters — and having the right one matters more. But I know the back of that saying just as well. I’ll be in the middle…
I picked up a dictionary the other day — not an old-looking modern one, but an actual one: the first English dictionary, printed in 1604. I couldn’t read half of it. Not the handwriting — the words. Some are simply gone. Others I knew, but wearing meanings I didn’t recognize. One stopped me. Dispose. The 1604 entry reads:…
The English word “repentance” has done considerable damage. When we read it, we think of guilt or behavior change. But the original Greek text uses a word that goes past those limits: metanoia. “Repentance” isn’t wrong exactly — it points to guilt, remorse, a promise to do better. It lives on the surface: a change of…