{"id":2188,"date":"2007-03-10T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T09:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/03\/church-staff-split-over-sucks.html"},"modified":"2007-03-10T09:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-10T09:24:00","slug":"church-staff-split-over-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/03\/church-staff-split-over-sucks.html","title":{"rendered":"Church Staff split over &#8216;sucks&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leithart.com\/archives\/002811.php\">Here<\/a> is an interesting article about Christians using swear words (<a href=\"http:\/\/jollyblogger.typepad.com\/jollyblogger\/2007\/02\/grudem_and_leit.html#more\">via<\/a>).  There was quite a fuss when I decided to allow some swearing on the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianblogosphere.blogspot.com\/index.html\">Christian Blogsphere blogroll<\/a>.  I wanted to make sure that bloggers were able to quote others or even quote from the Bible <a href=\"http:\/\/photobucket.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i129.photobucket.com\/albums\/p224\/michelercb\/baby-emoticon.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket\" \/><\/a>  If a Christian wanted to blog about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/archives\/002318.php\">John Piper swearing<\/a>, he should be able to quote Piper.  I really didn&#8217;t want people sending me complaints about someone swearing on the blogroll.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.larknews.com\/march_2007\/secondary.php?page=4\">Here<\/a> is a parody of this issue (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchmarketingsucks.com\/archives\/2007\/03\/church_staff_sp.html\">via<\/a>).  And make sure you check out their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/larknews\">t-shirts<\/a>.<br \/>\nCheck <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larknews.com\/march_2007\/secondary.php?page=1\">this one<\/a> out too, it&#8217;s pretty funny.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tag_list\">Tags: <span class=\"tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Christianity\" rel=\"tag\">Christianity<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/religion\" rel=\"tag\">religion<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/humor\" rel=\"tag\">humor<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting article about Christians using swear words (via). There was quite a fuss when I decided to allow some swearing on the Christian Blogsphere blogroll. 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