GOSSIP

August 3rd, 2011 | By admin

by Stephanie Kenyon

Have you ever played the game “Telephone?” Do you remember what happened? Usually, whatever sentence the group started with was nowhere near the same thing whispered in the last person’s ear. Somewhere along the line, someone whispered a word and the next person mistook it for something else. How often do we do this and gossip without knowing it? Just like “telephone,” we sometimes pass along information we think we heard from a reliable source. Sometimes, though, we just pass along information we know isn’t true. How sad is that? That we, can be so starved for a small bit of attention that we will fabricate something completely false just to get a minute or two in the limelight. I want to suggest to you that gossip is not just “bad” in the general sense of the word, but it is also a sin. (more…)