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As is probably highly obvious to our regular visitors the site has undergone a major update! :)
We've updated the look and feel of the site as well as made some enhancements to speed things up a bit when searching or otherwise moving about the site.
One of the changes that was required was that we remove the discussion board. We have since pointed everyone to the Psalm11918.org Facebook page where converations can carry on unabated there. :)
Take a look around the site and let us know what you think. The whole team has been hard at work working to make the site fresh, fast, and (uh, hey, guys... quick... what's another positive sounding word that starts with "F"?)
Oh, yeah, fantastic!
Peace and blessings.
There is a website I enjoy visiting from time to time that deals with all things typography: I Love Typography.
I was pointed there recently to an interesting article entitled "Where does the alphabet come from?"
What makes this article interesting is that it goes all the way from ancient cuneiform to modern day English letters. What makes it exceptionally interesting is that it includes references to people and places in the Bible in a positive manner.
I just sat and shook my head in amazement at the hypocrisy.
I have seen the word flabbergasted before and even used it at times but I had not ever felt it to this degree.
I was embarrased on behalf of those who would exhibit such a double standard. It made me enormously uncomfortable even being aware of it. No... I am not talking about the behavior of someone in my congregation, community, or office. I'm referring to certain individuals with the medical journal "Lancet".
CNN ran an article entitled Home births: No drugs, no doctors, lots of controversy on August 9th. In it they quote a Lancet editorial as follows:
The Merriam-Webster Word of the Day for August 1st 2007 was the adjective august.
marked by majestic dignity or grandeur
They provided this insightful bit of information about the origins of the word:
"August" comes from the Latin word "augustus," meaning "consecrated" or "venerable," which in turn is related to the Latin "augur," meaning "consecrated by augury" or "auspicious." In 8 B.C. the Roman Senate honored Augustus Caesar, the first Roman emperor, by changing the name of their month "Sextilis" to "Augustus." Middle English speakers inherited the name of the month of August, but it wasn't until the mid-1600s that "august" came to be used generically in English, more or less as "augustus" was in Latin, to refer to someone with imperial qualities.
Even more so than our last "Word for Thought", copacetic, the origins of the Merriam-Webster Word of the Day for March 26th are Hebraic. The word was shibboleth.
1 : catchword, slogan 2 : a widely held belief or truism 3 : a custom or usage regarded as distinctive of a particular group