[Ronly Bonly Jones]

It's Orthodox Jewish practice not to spell out the full name of the Lord in English; it's an echo of the (very wise) tradition not to say out loud the 'tetragrammaton', replacing it with 'Adonai' ("Lord") when speaking Scripture. I think it is an exceedingly righteous tradition and should be emulated by devout Christians.

OTOH, don't get me started on numbering years B.C.E. and C.E. ....

[dawn53]

Isn't the practice one of leaving out vowels, in order to not spell the name out completely?

Seems to me I remember that JHVH is the accepted way for denoting the word "Jehovah" in Hebrew.

[whipitgood]

I totally agree that devout christians should show more respect for the name of G-d. Do you have any links to guidelines that we uninformed might read? I feel somewhat guilty whenever I use the name in emails or other casual communications.
I also believe that the Third commandment was meant to refer to ANY use of the name of G-d, especially the reference to one's own self as a believer.

[talleyman]

Who started that B.C.E & C.E. crap, anyway?