language – Perfect Chaos

The Scholarly Trick of the Authoritative Plural

There’s a trick that some people who perceive themselves to be learned use in order to try to gain your

In this series of posts about the religion of Islam, I am sharing thoughts that have occurred to me while

Greetings, all. As I read through Muhammad Abdel Haleem’s English translation of the Qur’an recently, I highlighted everything that either

I recently updated the tagline of my other blog to include the word ‘faith’. As I thought about that word,

In today’s post, I’d like to reflect briefly on the process of writing, editing, and publishing a book, and how

The One True God is self-existing; he always has been and always will be. How old, therefore, can we realistically

Last year, I began a blog series called Praise and Prose in which my aim was to do exactly what

For today’s post in my Praise and Prose series, I’d like to discuss how our use of language might change

We shouldn’t say “I would appreciate it if you’d do the washing up”, because that is making a factual statement