Talk:What would Jesus do?

message: While the Wikipedia entry is 'evangelicalism' that term is almost never used in everday speech.  The compromise is to use the common 'evangelical' while linking to evangelicalism.  Samw 03:06, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Evangelical vs evangelicalism 

message: I have a feeling we're going to get into a battle of "who invented 'WWJD?'" here.  A profile in this past Sunday's The Grand Rapids Press credits Dan Seaborn, a Wesleyan pastor in Holland MI with starting it in 1988.  (He's the person I was referring to in my edit.)  And the Lesco Pathway web site (one of the companies that helped popularize the bracelets) credits a particular Reformed congregation in Holland in 1989.  Based on the dates, I'm inclined to credit Seaborn (though he made buttons, not bracelets), but I suspect the "what would Jesus do" idea was generally buzzing around town in the late 80s (the teenagers at these various churches all went to the same couple of high schools), and I doubt we'll ever really know who first came up with the notion of wearing the initials as a reminder and promoting that beyond their personal circle.  That's why I left the originator unnamed. Tverbeek 01:02, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That's fine.  Probably doesn't warrant crediting both (although certainly the bracelets took off quite a bit more).  Without any reference and so generic in the prev text, I thought it was worth editing to include the documented (though biased towards the Lutheran) story I knew. -Jcbarr 01:13, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of the Accessories 

message: Moved from User talk:Samw:
Thanks, Sam. When I made the addition, I wasn't particularly comfortable with the "parody" designation, but the other sections didn't seem applicable either. ronels 05:08, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree the current location in history is awkward too.  We could start a new section on "Impacts" and even make "accessories" a subsection under that. Be bold and change it! Samw 01:00, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gary Willis book 

message: I believe this article is not appropriate for the "Fashion" category it keeps getting placed under. "The term fashion applies to changing and developing social and cultural interest in a range of topics such as music, film, clothing, architecture." This phrase does not have enough weight to be listed under such a broad and defined category as Fashion and categories such as "Slogans" and perhaps even "1990s fads" (which I am putting it under) are more suitable. --Ethii 01:43, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Category

message: Might it be better to change this section into a bullet list? -- 217.42.3.37 13:16, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Parody/Alternatives

message: Derivatives and Satirical Variations and Song Parodies, why are they even in here?  At most make another article with these and just say see also instead having them in this article--Migospia†♥ 09:22, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Derivatives and Satirical Variations and Song Parodies 

message: What happened to the article WWJD in popular culture?  Was there an AFD on it?  Samw 03:09, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[WWJD in popular culture]] 

message: It would be interesting to hear if anyone knows how this phrase became popular in the 90's - quite a long time after the book was popular.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.240.198.88 (talk) 17:16, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Additions

message: It makes it come off as a worthless, trivial article. Just saying. 71.131.176.75 (talk) 08:17, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Related Phrases" is as long as the actual article. 

message: Frances Ridley Havergal reportedly used the explicit question in a poem somewhat earlier:
* If washed in Jesus' blood,Then bear His likeness too,And as you onward pressAsk, "What would Jesus do?"
** Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 251.
Cheers! bd2412 T 05:28, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Earlier sources 

message: I noticed that Catholics and Orthodox will often look to the Magisterium of their Church instead of refering directly to their consciences or to the scriptures. In this sense, WWJD can be interpreted as a distinctly Protestant slogan, although it does not really prevent Church-minded Christians from actually refering to their consciences or to the New Testament, as some might have suspected. ADM (talk) 09:33, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Faith alone won't necessarily tell you what to do in a given practical situation, and Jesus is not the worst role model for decision-making. I actually first heard a similar expression in the 1960s when Senator Everett Dirksen said he often asked himself, "What would Lincoln do?" More recently, we have, "What would Wellstone do?", "What would Brian Boitano do?", and probably countless others. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 19:42, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: What does the Church teach ?

message: 'What would Shinoda do?' is without reference, and I cannot find anything on google about it. Does it need a reference or does it need to be deleted? 116.93.141.139 (talk) 03:47, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: WWSD

message: Recently I edited this page intending to note that citations were needed. I inadvertently added two "disambiguation needed" tags rather than "citation needed" tags (see below). 
Sheldon's ideas coalesced with those that formed into the Social Gospel espoused by Walter Rauschenbusch. Indeed Rauschenbusch acknowledged that his Social Gospel owed its inspiration directly to Sheldon's novel, and Sheldon himself identified his own theology with the Social Gospel.
These disambiguation tags were rightly removed. I am now going to add the citation needed tags that I had intended to add in the first place. KConWiki (talk) 11:41, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Citations needed (not disambiguation)

message: It's not really a phenomenon outside of the US. How would you like it globalized? Walter Görlitz (talk) 19:44, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Over the last decade or two I've seen/met hundreds (if not thousands) of South Africans wearing the "WWJD?" bracelets, if it's common here it can't possibly be unknown in the rest of (at least the English-speaking) world. Just google the phrase with "site:.za, .uk, .ca, .au, .nz etc and you'll see just how widespread it is. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 20:22, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  SPSs? Any RS discussing it? The phenomenon died-out here about a five to ten years ago. If we can find material to globalize the article, I'd be glad to see it. Walter Görlitz (talk) 21:26, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Globalize? 

message: Back in the mid 1990's there was a joke in the Reader's Digest where someone seeing, a WWJD bracelet, asked what it was for. "It's so that I would remember 'What would Jesus do.'" Reply, "I know one thing Jesus would not do is to wear a bracelet that says 'What would Jesus do?'" 
While humorous, I don't have access to back issues of R.D. Can anyone find a reference for it?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.67.101.112 (talk) 21:46, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  WWJD in Modern Culture  

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