Category Archives: Tomfoolery

Random Cool Stuff

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Darrell Pursiful

On Tweaking the Soterian Gospel. Scott McKnight explains why you can’t just tack “story” onto the traditional “transactional” (my word) “plan of salvation” and call it “the gospel.” D. A. Carson on the difference between a “boundary-bounded” and a “center-bounded” … Continue reading →

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December 21, 2012

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Darrell Pursiful

This just in: What do the Maya really say about 2012? Is the world going to end on December 21, 2012? Learn more from the most famous Maya in the world, 1992 Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchu Tum of Guatemala, … Continue reading →

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Celebrities Who Look Like Historical Personalities

Posted on September 3, 2011 by Darrell Pursiful

Some of these are brilliant. I’m glad I wasn’t sipping a Pepsi when I saw Keith Richards and…. Share this: Digg this postRecommend on FacebookBuzz it upTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this postTell a friend

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So Bad It’s Good

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Darrell Pursiful

From Doug Chaplin via James McGrath: The modern day Mycenaean cyber-warriors devised a cunning plan to get into Troy. They sent the Trojans an email with a website address linked from the words “You’ll love this great plan to get … Continue reading →

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Eight Simple Rules for Sunday School Curriculum Writers

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Darrell Pursiful

(1) While it is often the case that writers of theological works desire to express themselves in long, flowery sentences replete with extraneous modifiers and prepositional phrases, thereby demonstrating to their readers the depth and profundity of their grasp of … Continue reading →

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Congratulations to Pope Benedict on His Apotheosis

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Darrell Pursiful

GetReligion contributor tmatt laughed out loud at this howler from The Toronto Star (now MIA from their website), and so did I: Though most in the Coptic Orthodox community send their children to Catholic school, they are not Catholic themselves. … Continue reading →

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It’s Bulwer-Lytton Time Again

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Darrell Pursiful

The 2011 results have been announced in the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. The winner is Sue Fondrie of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, for this gem of purple prose: Cheryl’s mind turned like the vanes of a wind-powered turbine, chopping her sparrow-like thoughts … Continue reading →

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An Editor’s Bucket List

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Darrell Pursiful

Tom Raabe rocks! My favorites: Catch a really important typo. Many have been the authors whose assiduous editors have saved them from espousing a “pubic” theology, for example, or from proclaiming a gospel that is a stumbling block to the … Continue reading →

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Don’t Be Like This Guy

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Darrell Pursiful

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Punctuate Like an American, Dang It!

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Darrell Pursiful

Ben Yagoda notes a shift in American punctuation conventions: For at least two centuries, it has been standard practice in the United States to place commas and periods inside of quotation marks. This rule still holds for professionally edited prose: … Continue reading →

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