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Cow Pie Language and the Author’s Pen

February 9, 2017 By Author John Leave a Comment

Author's Pen

Contemplating the Author’s Pen and Civility

From My Journal

Author's Pen PlaceIn recent posts I have been sharing musings from my journal and how the content of the musings relates to writing. In this article I examine the author’s pen and civility relative to language. I offer my musing and then will comment on the use of cow pie language that too often these days flows from an author’s pen to the page and then is thrust in our face as readers. The musing:

JUST SOMETHING ON MY MIND

Why is it that we take something extremely personal, sacred, and superlative beyond words, throw it in the mud, trample on it, and enjoy a laugh while thinking the whole thing so cool? I speak of the wonder of sexual intimacy between a husband and wife that we “moderns” have reduced to a gutter word that we seem to enjoy spewing forth with mindless incivility.

Cow Pie LanguageThen there is the opposite end of the spectrum. When I was a little kid I would walk through our neighbor’s pasture and thought it “cool” to sink my bare feet into the warm piles left by his cows. Gross! People have said, “John, how could you do that?” I was a stupid little kid. But today adults spew the stuff of cow pies from their mouths, “in your face,” so to speak, as a part of conversation.

Can anyone tell me what makes the F-word and the S-word so cool? I don’t get it! Why do we need to debauch sexual intimacy and exalt excrement?

Am I being “holier than thou”? I trust not. And in that regard, I make no claim to perfection—I am a work in progress—but I am conscious of civility—the simple courtesy of respectable language.

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Christian Authors and the Place of Faith

January 5, 2017 By Author John Leave a Comment

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Musings from My Journal

Reflecting on Christian Authors and Faith

Christian Authors ReflectionsIn the last few posts I have shared musings from my journal and how the content of those musings impact me as a Christian writer. In this article I look at the nature of faith and observe that true faith affects the totality of a person’s life. That being true, then faith must of necessity imbue the Christian author’s writing? So let us contemplate the nature of faith. The following was taken from my journal and also appears in my book, Reflections of a Searching Soul.

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