{"id":3909,"date":"2005-06-27T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-27T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/owenstrachan.wordpress.com\/2005\/06\/27\/bring-back-puritan-names\/"},"modified":"2005-06-27T19:52:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-27T19:52:00","slug":"bring-back-puritan-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thoughtlife\/2005\/06\/bring-back-puritan-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring Back Puritan Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>What ever happened to Puritan names?  Parents, why have you abandoned classic nomenclature of your progeny?  Every little towhead these days is named something like Connor, Avery, Tyler, Smith, blah, blah, blah.  In an attempt to help you all, I\u2019m going to offer some suggestions by which we can turn this thing around.  These are theologically motivated and in fact reflect a return to the theology of Puritans, which I think is dope, in general.<\/p>\n<p>These are full names:<br>1) Exhaustive Foreknowledge Jones<br>2) Authoritative Revelation Smith<br>3) Forensic Righteousness Dupree<br>4) Fruits of The Spirit Carter<br>5) Foreordained Taylor<\/p>\n<p>and my personal favorite, for twins: Decreed Will Preston &amp; Desired Will Preston<\/p>\n<p>Parents\u2013think about this.  It\u2019s a serious matter.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What ever happened to Puritan names? Parents, why have you abandoned classic nomenclature of your progeny? Every little towhead these days is named something like Connor, Avery, Tyler, Smith, blah, blah, blah. In an attempt to help you all, I\u2019m going to offer some suggestions by which we can turn this thing around. 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