#624: Rehabilitating Gossip
Why we tell stories about each other.
Rehabilitating gossip as a Christian form of speech is not quite a Peak Matt Anderson project, but it comes fairly close to one. As I have argued both in this newsletter and in print elsewhere, defamatory speech behind a person’s back has an important role to play in Christian communities: “gossip” in this pejorative sense plays an important role in bot…
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