Methodist Corner

The seminary I attend has a stated "inclusive language" policy which generates a certain level of controversy.  It states:
Believing that God creates and redeems humanity by “word” and “word made flesh,” the MTS community takes seriously the agency of language within the classroom and the sanctuary. The use of inclusive language in writing and speaking [...]

Growing up, my family and I attended a fundamental holiness church; very charismatic and intently focused on “personal” revelation.  I remember asking our pastor one evening, “Where did the other people Cain encountered come from?”  His reply was, “That’s a question that can only be answered through revelation.”  Of course he was speaking of a [...]