“Consider revising to avoid this word,” says Grammatik, a syntax and spelling checker on my WordPerfect 12. The word was “hell,” as one of the “four last things,” also including death, judgment, and heaven. Even the spell-checkers don’t want to hear about it!
Speak not of it
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Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by. View all posts by Jim Bowman
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