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To: fwdude

We tend to use Reverend, which is what they call themselves to avoid confusion. Say Rev. so-and-so.


12 posted on 09/01/2013 2:38:47 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge
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To: JCBreckenridge

I don’t use the term Reverend. It’s used only once in the Bible and then in reference to God.


15 posted on 09/01/2013 2:44:07 PM PDT by BipolarBob
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To: JCBreckenridge

The one Episcopal priest I knew went by “Father.” I protested to the mutual fried of ours that he wasn’t anoyone’s father, never having married. I was told to call him “Ralph.”


16 posted on 09/01/2013 2:45:45 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: JCBreckenridge

“Reverend” is an adjective, but many people mistakenly use it as a title. For example, a popular commentator calls a well-known cleric “the Reverend Jackson,” when it should be the Reverend Jesse Jackson or the Reverend Mr. Jackson.


58 posted on 09/01/2013 7:29:20 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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