What's in a COB Name?

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

War is just a fad. Peace is always in style.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

Sometimes I wonder how the human world would be different if you had made us a little more like angels.
Suppose we did not see our differences as reason enough to dislike, put down, abuse, ridicule, hate, oppress, enslave or slaughter one another.
Suppose we accepted our common humanity, our common origins, our common fate on Earth.
Suppose you had made us like that…

You did?
That’s what it means when we pray for your dominion to come on Earth as it is in heaven?
You made it possible for us to realize something like heaven on Earth?
What a concept!
What a project!
You think we can do that??!

Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“This little piggy went to market…”

[I can think of a couple of reasons He never said that – probably.]

D. Blog: What’s in a Name?

The religious tradition that nurtured me has, for this age, a strange name: Church of the Brethren. Archaic, unfamiliar word that’s often misspelled even by members of the church. The name sounds as if it excludes females and it commonly brings the question, “Is that a Catholic order of some kind?”

There have been attempts to bring about a name change, but to date without success. Some of the suggestions for a new name that retains the COB abbreviation are fun or interesting to consider…

Church of the: Beleaguered, Broken, Bad Name, Boring, Bedeviled, Bankrupt, Blocked, Bifurcated, Bloodied, Bereft, Bewildered, Bipolar, or Beloved.

I think the last has sounds best.