When politicians, authority figures, or bureaucrats ignore those who need help, they’re said to be sitting high and looking low. This idiom, almost exclusive to the African-American community, goes back to 1970s. It’s also used in a...
steeplejacking n.— «Let me now explain “steeplejacking.” This is what happens when mainstream denominational churches lose their congregational members to a nearby evangelical church. In very simple terms this is where members are...
A caller wonders why some versions of the Lord’s Prayer include the phrase “forgive us our trespasses,” while others substitute the word “debt.”
buzzard Baptist n.— «I am what some ministers call a Buzzard Baptist. I never go to any regular service at the church, but I attend all the funerals.» —“Church members coin new definitions of their religion” by Jim...
apatheism n. the attitude of not caring about religion or whether there is a God. Etymological Note: apa(th)y + -theism (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
apatheism n.— «Apatheism—a disinclination to care all that much about one’s own religion, and an even stronger disinclination to care about other people’s—may or may not be something new in the world, but its modern flowering...