Words and images can be intentionally co-opted by those seeking to advance particular ideological agendas— without evening know it. If we don’t know what a boy is then groups like the Boy Scouts and leagues for boys and girls sports lose all meaning. Consider the way in which the image of the rainbow has now communicates capitulation to and celebration of a sexual revolution that runs totally afoul the original bow set in the sky by God in Genesis 9.
So in 2017, here is a new call: be watchful about how words and images transform before our very eyes and take on new meaning.
In a time when many groups are defending culturally distinctive ideas and words, Christians need to reclaim a few of our own. Here’s my list of misunderstood and misused words to be reclaimed in 2017 …