Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind

so that you may be able to prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12.2. This is Resistance and Reformation on the Fight Laugh Feast Network.

The word Guy has passed into common English usage as an all-purpose term for a man,

except it's plural, guys which can refer to a group of people regardless of sex. But of course, Guy did not

start off as a generic masculine noun. It was a name. Think of Guy Clark, the King of the Texas

troubadors, or Guy Burgess, the Soviet double agent, a member of the

notorious Cambridge Five spy ring.

Or think of Guy Lombardo, the renowned big band musician,

or Guy Demopizal, the 19th century essayist.

Then there are Guy Ritchie and Guy Fieri, contemporary pop culture icons,

the former a Hollywood director, the latter, a flamboyant TV chef.

Saint Guy was a fourth century Christian martyr during the great persecution of Diocletian.

Guy of Los Angeles was the 12th century crusader and king of Jerusalem and Guy of

Dumpier was the 13th century count of Flanders.

Perhaps the most famous guy in the annals of history was Guy Fox.

He was a provincial English provocateur who in 1605 schemed to assassinate the Protestant King James

the first and then to restore a Catholic monarch to the throne of Britain.

His plan was to ignite more than a dozen barrels of gunpowder that he and a group of his co-conspirators had stockpiled in an

undercroft beneath the House of Lords in London. Fox was born in 1570 in York into a prominent family. His father

was a proctor and an advocate of the consistency court. His paternal grandfather was a Church of

England canon and his maternal grandfather was the Lord Mayor. Even so his mother was a reclusive Catholic and his

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