November 10, 2013

Violent Metaphors in Everyday Paralance

November 10, 2013 / Taking Stock

Violent Metaphors in Common Parlance As the anniversary of Sandy Hook draws near — and as I witness an ongoing rash of gun-related violence in our culture — I have been thinking about violent metaphors in everyday language. When I recently tried to collect some of them, I quickly found over 80 commonly used phrases, […]

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Heroes

November 10, 2013 / Sermons

Rev. Stocker asks, “Who are our heroes? And why? What do we tell our children?” In preparing this sermon, Rev. Stocker asked the congregation to tell her who their heroes are. Here she reports back on what she heard.

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