Back in July of last year, I posted a list here of forty-two suggestions for resisting modernity. The list was compiled by one of my professors, John Muether. I appreciated the list a lot, and keep it on my bulletin board in my office where I look over it every now and then.

The other day, after reading one of Human3rror's posts on blogging tips where he suggested that having a post series is a good thing, I decided that taking a number of the items on this list and blogging about them once a week (on Monday) would make for an interesting series. I plan to take that up starting next week Monday.

For now, though, I need your help. I can't come up with a title for this series. My initial idea was to go with alliteration, but as you can see from the title to this post, I have yet to come up with a synonym for "resisting" that begins with an "M." If you've got any ideas, I'd love to hear your suggestions (it doesn't even need to be English). I'm open to switching days as well if you can think of something good that incorporates another day of the week.

Update, March 2: In the end, I decided to go with John's suggestion of using the term mortify. As he mentions in the comments here, that term has had robust usage in Reformed spirituality. You will find it often, for example, in the writings of the Puritans, who, incidentally, are also responsible for helping us recapture the idea of being pilgrims. Since the focus the Christian pilgrimage and of this series and list is to help us gain some perspective on what it means to live in but not be of the world, I chose to employ the title, "Mondays are for Mortifying Modernity."

Thanks for all your suggestions!