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steve-in-kville wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 7:27 am

Grace wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 7:13 am What is "church spread"?

Peanut butter smear is another name.

In my neighborhood it's called Amish peanut butter.

Finally with every risk, one has to do a cost-benefit analysis to determine whether the costs outweigh the benefits. I'm not sure why you feel compelled to argue so vociferously against people whose life circumstances and worldview produce different results from their analysis. That's another analy...

temporal1 wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2024 8:05 pm i wish the subject line was: “May 11 2024”
nothing else.

Since you're a connoisseur of old threads, consider how difficult it would be years from now to find this one with an even more non-descriptive title than the one it now has.

As an unimportant person myself, despite the efforts of airlines and hotel chains and credit card companies to convince me otherwise, I rarely sign checks. I *issue* dozens of checks each month between church, personal, and business accounts, but it's unusual to print and sign more than one a month ...

The denomination is now the United Church of Christ, but some of the churches are still Congregational. That's congregationalism.

mike wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2024 8:04 am What group did Anabaptist disciples of Christ split away from?

Many of the congregations, not all, were formerly Beachy.

i expect some members have seen/visited at least some of these places/artifacts. The compiler of the slideshow obviously has not. Some of the images do not correspond to the text: that's not the Tel Dan stele, Tyre, the Western Wall in Jerusalem, or Capernaum. At least one of them is not even in th...

What is the thrill attached to jumping on band wagons - to the exclusion of a moment’s considered thought? The race to the bottom. Alternatively, one can watch for bandwagons that other people are jumping on and off of, and supply us with knee-jerk dogmatic responses to that activity. Is that more ...

Wife: Speaking of genealogies and language similarities, I found out that the meaning of an ancestor’s maiden name was “grasping innkeeper”. Oy. :roll: This is not genealogically related, and doesn't give anything away, but my favorite fictional innkeeper name is Barliman Butterbur of Bree, proprie...

Let's try tot to induce a heart attack on the mods 8-) Thanks for thinking of us, I guess, though it seems a bit childish. I'll totes put a cardiologist on speed dial. In this thread , the consensus seemed to be that BMA was the dividing line between "conservatives" and "liberals.&qu...