Comments on: Setting Thesarus Entry: Church https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/09/setting-thesarus-entry-church/ Helping writers become bestselling authors Mon, 23 Oct 2017 14:29:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Angela https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/09/setting-thesarus-entry-church/#comment-2593 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:40:19 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/09/setting-thesarus-entry-church/#comment-2593 Thanks, Alice!

Mary, I appreciate you adding in those orors. I agree smell is a big part of church. Love the shoe polish one–I’d forgotten that one!

]]> By: Mary Witzl https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/09/setting-thesarus-entry-church/#comment-2592 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:11:11 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/09/setting-thesarus-entry-church/#comment-2592 For me, church has so much to do with smell. We were Protestants and went three times a week when I was a child. My main memories are the smells of cheap wooden pews (no fancy wooden decorations in our rustic church!) and toiletries. The smell of fabric, newly washed or dry-cleaned; the smell of powder on elderly skin, of hair that had been freshly permed, Brill-creamed into stiff waves, or sprayed. The smell of men’s carefully polished shoes, of skin scrubbed with soap and splashed with aftershave. And the smell of tiny babies, of sweat, of hymn books and the Bible. And finally, the smell of dozens of people all sitting together on a hot day, listening to hellfire sermons for hours on end. The smell of fear.

]]> By: Alice https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/09/setting-thesarus-entry-church/#comment-2580 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:49:20 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/09/setting-thesarus-entry-church/#comment-2580 I think you did well. Thank You!! Of course I am a non church goer too.

]]> By: Alice https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/09/setting-thesarus-entry-church/#comment-2579 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:48:28 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/09/setting-thesarus-entry-church/#comment-2579 I think you did well, Thanks!

]]> By: Angela https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/09/setting-thesarus-entry-church/#comment-2578 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:37:51 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2009/09/setting-thesarus-entry-church/#comment-2578 As a non church goer, this list may be woefully incomplete. If anyone has more sensory detail to beef up the entries that would apply to a majority of churches, please let me know and I’ll add it to the entry.

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