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I use Google Alerts. It's decent enough I suppose. Checking, it looks like I currently have 27 alerts reflecting various interests and avocations: "blend|p

I use Google Alerts. It's decent enough I suppose. Checking, it looks like I currently have 27 alerts reflecting various interests and avocations: "blend|portmanteau words" "bryan garner" modern usage "christian jargon" "christian platitudes" "christian slang" "christian-ese" "christianease" "christianese dictionary" "dictionary of christianese" "humor in the bible" "humor of Jesus" "jesus laughing" "jesus sense of humor" "jesus's sense of humor" "lexicographer|lexicographers|lexicography|lexicographical" "mixed blessings" "tim stewart" "mixed blessings" dictionary stewart "portmanteaux|portmanteau|portmanteaus" blend words "terri bednarz" "humor in the gospels" “Did Jesus laugh” “Jesus laughed” “Tim Stewart” Christianese christianese evangelical.buzzword | christian.buzzword | church.buzzword | pentecostal.buzzword | emerging.church.buzzword | charismatic.buzzword | protestant.buzzword evangelical.cliché | christian.cliché | church.cliché | pentecostal.cliché | emerging.church.cliché | charismatic.cliché | protestant.cliché humor "hebrew bible" radday brenner comic "hebrew bible"

silisili 4y ago
Thanks for the tip. I've been on the internet for nearly 30 years, used Google since inception, and this is the first time I've heard of Google Alerts or even knew it was a thing!
xmonkee 4y ago
Okay I need to know what's with the jesus laughing thing?
- timoteostewart 4y ago
  Hahaha! Right?! The Bible says twice that Jesus wept and nowhere does it say he laughed. I think some people have in mind that Jesus was mostly dour and stern, even morose. Whether he had a sense of humor and how he might have expressed it is a fascinating question for me. I think some of the things he said and taught might have a tinge of humor to them. Like when he called Peter a Rock, was that him ribbing Peter that he was a bit of a blockhead? I wonder what things he said that got people chuckling and guffawing. Maybe one day I’ll write a book. I am sitting on didjesuslaugh.com. :-) Interestingly there is some scholarship on this question. I myself would probably write for a popular audience though, maybe with a bibliography in the back.
scottmcdot 4y ago
You might want to add "humour" to those variations too.
- timoteostewart 4y ago
  Good call!

silisili 4y ago

Thanks for the tip. I've been on the internet for nearly 30 years, used Google since inception, and this is the first time I've heard of Google Alerts or even knew it was a thing!

xmonkee 4y ago

Okay I need to know what's with the jesus laughing thing?

timoteostewart 4y ago
Hahaha! Right?! The Bible says twice that Jesus wept and nowhere does it say he laughed. I think some people have in mind that Jesus was mostly dour and stern, even morose. Whether he had a sense of humor and how he might have expressed it is a fascinating question for me. I think some of the things he said and taught might have a tinge of humor to them. Like when he called Peter a Rock, was that him ribbing Peter that he was a bit of a blockhead? I wonder what things he said that got people chuckling and guffawing. Maybe one day I’ll write a book. I am sitting on didjesuslaugh.com. :-) Interestingly there is some scholarship on this question. I myself would probably write for a popular audience though, maybe with a bibliography in the back.

scottmcdot 4y ago

You might want to add "humour" to those variations too.

timoteostewart 4y ago
Good call!