It is hard not to smile nowadays when someone, inevitably a religious liberal, declares some proposal “prophetic.” It’s so sixties. In today’s “On the Square” article, Too Often Prophetic , I suggest why they shouldn’t use it nearly so much, and why religious conservatives should avoid their own equivalent terms.
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