It’s pretty much all over the internet that the Oxford Dictionary have selected the emoji (a pictograph – picture image used in text messaging) “Face with Tears of Joy” as their word of the year for 2015. There must be an irony in the choice that I’m missing, and real words pretty much are failing …

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Trigger Warning: There’s a fair chance you’ve been through something like these if you’re a pastor or church member. Thom Rainer harvests responses from a Twitter survey about church conflicts caused by silly things. The comment thread is providing more examples. If you read it and are thinking “These don’t sound so bad compared to …

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