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Linguistics and Language Series

‘Deadnames’ and the ‘Confessional’ Call

July 14, 2024
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Book, Media and Movie Commentaries, Linguistics and Language Series, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings

A name is one of the first gifts a parent(s) give to their child. Names are not random proper nouns, but parents give a lot of thought to this sacred act. For a parent, their child’s given name is inextricably linked to hundreds of thousands of memories and experiences and even to aspects of their own identity as the parent of “child’s given name”. It is the child’s given name that is so intrinsically embedded within internal memories of moments...

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DO YOUR HOMEWORK SERIES: A Preoccupation With Words (What Do Shakespeare, CS Lewis, Jacques Derrida, David Fitch and Gary D. Collier Have in Common?)

June 30, 2024
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Book, Media and Movie Commentaries, Do Your Homework Series, Linguistics and Language Series, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings

I’ll confess–I have a preoccupation with words. Furthermore–I’ll confess–my gift isn’t in the realm of succinctness! As a dear (and patient listener) friend affectionately told me, “Why use one word when twenty-five will do?!” A single word can be a kind of doorway into the beautiful and into the vile…and string several of these things we name as “words” together in just the right manner…and oh…the results can be a kind of deliciously, sweet, rich-and-delectable, layered morsel that rests on...

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Do Your Homework Series: Fitch, Foucault, Rhor & Zahnd (And No, That is Not a Law Firm…)

March 15, 2024
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Book, Media and Movie Commentaries, Do Your Homework Series, Linguistics and Language Series, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings

This piece will be in several sections and includes some of my explorations this past week and what I’ve been learning. Basically, I’m going to link information and commentary for those who deeply care about remaining in the arena of sound, biblical doctrine and avoiding associations and “discipleship/conversionship” by modern-day heretics and those in the Church bent on promoting a variety of deconstructionist ideas (of both a soteriological and political nature). I want to start by recommending the following talk...

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Book Review: “Reckoning With Power” by David Fitch

February 24, 2024
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Book, Media and Movie Commentaries, Linguistics and Language Series, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings

Fitch begins the introduction to his heretical work with two basically-flawed premises that there are “only two types of power in the world” and that “God’s power is never coercive.” “I hope you will put up with me in a little foolishness. Yes, please put up with me! I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him. But I am afraid that just as Eve was...

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On Preston Sprinkle and His Promotion of REVOICE

January 17, 2024
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Book, Media and Movie Commentaries, Linguistics and Language Series, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings

Preston Sprinkle seems to be upheld these days as a thoughtful, biblical “conversation partner” on issues of gender. He has a podcast called Theology in the Raw, and leads/hosts the so-called Center for Faith, Gender and Sexuality. Sprinkle is purported by himself and others to affirm the traditional, biblical design/definition for marriage, yet, if we deeply scrutinize his methods and connections, it leaves Christian listeners in murky, unclear waters. This link shows the lined up speakers for Theology in the...

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Max Lucado to Speak at 2024 “Exiles in Babylon” Conference Organized by Preston Sprinkle

December 2, 2023
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Book, Media and Movie Commentaries, Linguistics and Language Series, Religion, Politics and Current Events

Continuing with my series on raising awareness of theological/political/sociological/ideological shifts taking place in the Church and through well-known Christian Pastors, Speakers, Authors and Theologians, I am sharing this analysis/delving (below, in video form by Wokepedia) into the 2024 lineup of various speakers at Preston Sprinkle’s “Exiles in Babylon” Conference (sponsored by Theology in the Raw). You can read more about this conference and see all lined up speakers and their bios here. I have listened to this full talk, and...

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Manipulative Communication and Semantic Games: Preston Sprinkle’s Recent Podcast

December 2, 2023
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Book, Media and Movie Commentaries, Linguistics and Language Series, Religion, Politics and Current Events

After finishing up my earlier blog piece from today (WHAT IS “CRU” AND WHY DID THEY “CANCEL” JOSH MCDOWELL?), another online resource popped up (which I quickly subscribed to after listening to the initial podcast) relating to Preston Sprinkle’s recent interactions with Pastor Jared Moore on his Theology in the Raw podcast. I have now found myself subscribing to this Wokepedia podcast on YouTube (it is related somehow to EWIC News Site–“Enemies Within the Church”), along with a number of...

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Friendsgiving: The WOKE Virtue-Signaling Protest of the Traditional Family

November 22, 2023
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Linguistics and Language Series, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

The purpose of this piece is to raise awareness about linguistics and how new cultural practices form. It is my hope that if we can recognize the pattern, purpose and means of infiltrating ideologies and values in one specific context, then we can better recognize trending shifts–and that which is behind some innocuous-sounding changes–in other contexts and especially, in the Church. It is not my goal to pass judgement on whether you or someone you know engages in “Friendsgiving” of...

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The “Great Reset” of the Historic Christian Church and the Linguistics of Getting the Church “To Board” This Flight

October 3, 2023
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Book, Media and Movie Commentaries, Linguistics and Language Series, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings

In 1971, political-leaning John Lennon wrote a song that has a terribly beautiful feel and melody, and that has since moved people (musically and/or ideologically) of many spiritual/political leanings, seemingly transcending the actual linguistics of his imagined world. “Imagine there’s no heavenIt’s easy if you tryNo hell below usAbove us, only skyImagine all the peopleLivin’ for todayAhImagine there’s no countriesIt isn’t hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion, tooImagine all the peopleLivin’ life in peaceYouYou may say...

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PAIN – and the “Internalized Mother/Internalized Father Functions”

September 13, 2023
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Book, Media and Movie Commentaries, Linguistics and Language Series, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues

Pausing here to share a podcast that I’m early into while working. I think this one is going to be good, with a variety of thought-provoking considerations and challenges. Ignore the initial chit-chat between the two speakers over South Africa/Ireland and other ice-breaking conversations. I’m about 15 minutes in… If you have any interest in topics of trauma, PTSD, the WOKE movement and victimhood, real-and-true traumas, attachment issues (I think they will be exploring this) you may benefit from a...

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Eileen Slifer

I am a visual artist who works in a variety of mediums - producing fine art, illustration and design commissions/products for clients. I have been creating since childhood and sharing my giftings for hire since 1989. I also love to write and have been expressing in this way for a number of years in private poems, stories and journals that have been shared with treasured friends or publicly. Thank you for visiting my blog. I value the time and interest you spend on my expressions, and I read every comment.

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