Saturday, February 12, 2011
Younger, Restlesser Reformeder Featured on TeamPyro!
The authors of Younger, Restlesser, Reformeder were interviewed by Frank Turk yesterday on the wildly popular TeamPyro blog. Click here to listen.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
YRR: Reclaiming the Word “Helpful”
By Ted Kluck
Last time, we examined the Young Calvinist fascination with the word “reclaiming,” and today we’ll be doing the same thing with the word “helpful.” There are few things that we young Calvinists love more than deciding what is or isn’t “helpful.” I think it would be helpful if I defined the word, loosely, for our purposes:
help·ful/ˈhelpfəl/Adjective Things that are helpful include things that I like and approve of, and things that aren’t helpful include everything else.
Things that we like deciding the helpfulness of: Books, blog fights (YRRers LOVE these!!), websites, podcasts, ministries, interviews, and actual people.
What’s great about the word helpful, is that it’s a very sly way to say that you can’t stand something without actually saying it. Example: “Gut Check Press isn’t helpful.” Translation: “I wish Ted and Zach had never started Gut Check Press because I can’t stand the sight of their super clever landing pages, their boxing glove logo, their smug faces, or the fact that they’re laughing all the time and having fun at a business that is supposed to be mostly grim and boring and include lots of meetings.”
Last time, we examined the Young Calvinist fascination with the word “reclaiming,” and today we’ll be doing the same thing with the word “helpful.” There are few things that we young Calvinists love more than deciding what is or isn’t “helpful.” I think it would be helpful if I defined the word, loosely, for our purposes:
help·ful/ˈhelpfəl/Adjective Things that are helpful include things that I like and approve of, and things that aren’t helpful include everything else.
Things that we like deciding the helpfulness of: Books, blog fights (YRRers LOVE these!!), websites, podcasts, ministries, interviews, and actual people.
What’s great about the word helpful, is that it’s a very sly way to say that you can’t stand something without actually saying it. Example: “Gut Check Press isn’t helpful.” Translation: “I wish Ted and Zach had never started Gut Check Press because I can’t stand the sight of their super clever landing pages, their boxing glove logo, their smug faces, or the fact that they’re laughing all the time and having fun at a business that is supposed to be mostly grim and boring and include lots of meetings.”
Reclaiming the Word “Reclaiming”
By Ted Kluck
Gut Check Press recently released a book gently lampooning its own young, reformed culture. One of the things that my culture loves is “reclaiming” things. For some reason it’s important for young Calvinists to let the world know that we’re always in the process of “reclaiming” things like the arts, the city, manhood, sex, parenting, sports, vocation, marriage, and adoption. The list goes on and on.
To add “reclaiming” to a book title is pretty much solid gold in terms of book sales. And because I’m part owner of the Gut Check Empire, and of course have a stake in my own books, I wondered if it would be too late to “reclaim” some of those book titles? Here they are – let us know what you think, and let us know what you’ll be “reclaiming.”
Old Title: Saucy Broad: A Culinary Manifesto of Hope
New Title: Reclaiming Your Kitchen: A Treatise on Hope, Mission, and Salad
Old Title: Facing Tyson: Fifteen Fighters, Fifteen Stories
New Title: Reclaiming Mike Tyson: Ecclesiology, Soteriology, and the Willie Bag Situation; A Love Letter to Boxing
Old Title: Younger, Restlesser, Reformeder: A Good Natured Roast
New Title: Reclaiming the Process of Reclaiming: Be Sure and Catch My Talk at T4G and if You Miss It There You Can Hear It At The Gospel Coalition or NEXT.
Gut Check Press recently released a book gently lampooning its own young, reformed culture. One of the things that my culture loves is “reclaiming” things. For some reason it’s important for young Calvinists to let the world know that we’re always in the process of “reclaiming” things like the arts, the city, manhood, sex, parenting, sports, vocation, marriage, and adoption. The list goes on and on.
To add “reclaiming” to a book title is pretty much solid gold in terms of book sales. And because I’m part owner of the Gut Check Empire, and of course have a stake in my own books, I wondered if it would be too late to “reclaim” some of those book titles? Here they are – let us know what you think, and let us know what you’ll be “reclaiming.”
Old Title: Saucy Broad: A Culinary Manifesto of Hope
New Title: Reclaiming Your Kitchen: A Treatise on Hope, Mission, and Salad
Old Title: Facing Tyson: Fifteen Fighters, Fifteen Stories
New Title: Reclaiming Mike Tyson: Ecclesiology, Soteriology, and the Willie Bag Situation; A Love Letter to Boxing
Old Title: Younger, Restlesser, Reformeder: A Good Natured Roast
New Title: Reclaiming the Process of Reclaiming: Be Sure and Catch My Talk at T4G and if You Miss It There You Can Hear It At The Gospel Coalition or NEXT.
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