A Sunday Conversation with Friends

"Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved." - Thomas Merton

"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image." - Thomas Merton

"Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give bread of life."- Ralph Waldo Emerson, July 15, 1838, Cambridge

"If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it." - Toni Morrison

"The growth of violence in Christian thought, in Christian actions, is in exact proportion to a loss of faith." - Jacques Ellul

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There was a day in history when conversation failed and love did not prevail.

But there remains, hope.

 

God has given you a hammer, a bell, and a song.

 

Folk music has always given me hope that God can use people to make the world a little more righteous and has given me courage and resolve to be one of those people.

 

What is there to Talk About?

 

I value the way many diverse opinions and people meet on my page and the opportunity to talk things out.

 

Sometimes I post something provocative and see what folks do with it and sometimes someone else does.

 

Hopefully, I'll never scold or belittle you. I do have one or two opinions and sometimes I share them and sometimes I hold back.

 

My opinions are really worth very little.

 

What matters is truth.

 

I am often set in my faith and my ways, but hammering you with my beliefs will probably not bring you over.

 

So I don't do it.

 

I will share and certainly appreciate your indulgence when I do.

 

Thanks for being my friends.

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"Wherever there's conversation, there's hope," Wendell Berry

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Cartoons That Say Something

Conversation Starters

Just show up

Who Is Training Whom?

Let's not give up on language.

Do You Want Change?

A Conversation that Resulted in a Conversion

This Morning's Sermon

CORRECTION - It was Jacob who said to Esau that seeing your face is like seeing the face of God. Not the reverse.