I have heard this phrase used frequently. Recently, while waiting on a customer, I asked a woman if the baby she was holding was hers. I meant no harm when I asked and I certainly was insinuating nothing. I was only curious and I absolutely love children. Another woman, the baby’s mother, looked me square in the face and told me “in no uncertain terms” that I had no right to judge her daughter. Wow!!! I hear it used by others at work and I confess that I have jokingly used it myself. What concerns me is that, in our culture, it seems if I disagree with someone else’s opinion or something they are doing suddenly, I have judged them. Perhaps we need to redefine or rather get back to what it really means to “judge” someone. The word judge is a judicial term meaning to pronounce sentence on a guilty party. When we judge, we are pronouncing sentence on a person. According to the words of Jesus, we are not to judge, sentence anyone. Even with ...