What it's like to give up English for Lent

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🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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If you think meatless Fridays or forgoing sweets for the duration of Lent is hard, imagine giving up English—or whatever your primary language is. This week’s guest, Jimin Kang, did just that last year. Jimin speaks five languages but is most comfortable in English. We ask her how giving up English affected her relationship with her family and with God, and how people who only speak one language can adapt this Lenten practice to open themselves up to new people and cultures. In Signs of the Times, Zac and Ashley talk with their colleague Jim McDermott, S.J., about the Arizona priest who performed thousands of baptisms that have been declared invalid because he used one wrong word. How should the church respond when priests make mistakes like this? I Gave Up English for Lent Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Judge Whiticle, a podcast by the Young Hip and Lay
0:14.2	editors of America Media. That lay part means we aren't Jesuits but we work with
0:18.2	them. Join us each week for a smart Catholic take on faith culture in the news
0:22.0	often over drinks.
0:23.5	I'm Ashley McKinliss, and I'm joined by Zach Davis.
0:25.7	It's good to be with you back in person again, Ashley,
0:28.0	and I'm glad to see that you are healthy and doing well.
0:30.6	Yes, I am feeling much better if anyone listened to our Sunday bonus
0:34.8	episode. I was sounding kind of rough there. Actually finally succumbed to
0:39.3	COVID. Yeah, no. It was a humbling start to my Lent. Yeah, you got it like Ash Wednesday, right? Oh man, that's a little on the nose. Yeah, yeah. You're feeling good. Yeah, feeling good. Feeling good. Glad to be back in studio.
0:53.0	Yeah, it's good.
0:54.0	We got a great show, very Lenton themed.
0:56.0	Yes, we do.
0:56.7	We are talking to Giman Kang.
0:58.3	She is a graduate student at Oxford University,
1:01.4	and she wrote this really great op-ed in the New York Times titled
1:04.8	For Lent I Gave Up English. Yeah I thought this was fascinating because it's
1:10.4	that's like hardcore Lent, right?
1:13.0	Like we were talking about the unorthodox folks giving us some hardcore stuff,
1:18.0	like giving up English for Lent and trying to like just like limit yourself
1:22.0	to another like other languages that you know, hey I don't even like have the ability to do that and so I have mad respect for someone that could even conceivably do this.
1:30.0	But we get we talked to Jameen about a little bit about what that was experiences like and also kind of the relationship between different languages and faith.
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