November 4, 2005
Voila!
Alterpreneur is a slangy new British invention based on the word “entrepreneur” and refers to people who leave their jobs to start a business of their own, not so much to make money as to improve their standard of living, get more control over their lives, and generally to be happier.
We’ve a similar phenomenon on this side of the pond. With only a slight variation typical of the way we and the Brits sometimes rearrange our common language, we call these folk altarpreneurs. They’ve a move underfoot to discard our traditional geographic diocesan structure, replace it with something called a “network,” and start a new church. This makes it all the easier, some say, to play that familiar old apsic fun game of Drop-the-Purificator and maybe snare a new suitor among the more eligible foreign primates already on the make for hostile takeovers.
On the other hand and Voila! doubled-in-spades, how could I ever have overlooked that the truth of the matter that not the least cause for all this is so that after all, a case can be made for same-sects marriage?
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