Mary Reichard - 9/9/2011 2:50:37 PM
Dennis, your suggestion to speak for a week as though you were being overheard reminds me of something. There is a magnet on my fridge that says, "Always act as though Aunt Bee is watching you." (I'm an Andy Griffith Show fan.) Not bad advice!
As far as ways to build a positive culture of words, I've started looking for ways to speak up when PC talk is being bantered about as though there are no other viewpoints. Christians stay silent because we are taught to be polite, but there is a gulf between staying silent and therefore complicit in spreading a lie and telling the truth with compassion. So my way to building up a positive culture is to practice speaking up where in the past I might have stayed silent in order to not offend anyone.