A priest, a rabbi, and a minister walk into a bar. The bartender says, what is this, a joke? Yep. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “What is This, a Joke?” Here’s one for you, Grant. A priest, a rabbi, and a...
The calls and e-mails keep coming in about Scotts being called Todds and Todds being called Scotts. One listener left a voicemail about a christening where the priest called the baby by its oddly common misnomer. Another listener by the name of...
Bavarian Chalet. Mushroom Basket. Moose Point. Who in the heck comes up with the names of paints, anyway? Martha and Grant ponder that mystery. They also explain why those annoying emails go by the name spam. And Grant explains the difference...
An Episcopal priest in Toledo worries that her sermons are cluttered with dashes. This works just fine when she’s preaching, but when the same text appears on her church’s website, it looks like a messy tangle of words and punctuation...
bush wife n.— «I met three rape victims—euphemistically called bush wives—in a priest’s home not far from the eastern Congolese town of Bunia.» —“Hillary’s Gutsy Mission” by Eliza Griswold Daily Beast Aug. 7...
dumb feast n.— «The coven—a group of Wiccans with a high priest and a high priestess—lays out what is called a dumb feast, and invite their deceased loved ones to join them and share the meal. Although the menu is extremely varied and...