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Part One: Beer & Belief
Have you ever seen babies try to have serious, intimate discussions? They’re really bad at it! When one baby tries to have a meaningful conversation with another baby, they both end up gargling and spitting and blubbering about nothing. Each baby is entirely wrapped up in what he or she wants and never listens to find out what the other baby is asking for. One baby wants milk and the other wants its diaper changed and neither is interested in learning how to walk yet...
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Thanks a lot Peter. I just wanted to drop you a note to say that i really apperciate what your doing and that your writing about it. I'm glad that i've found someone who is trying to figure out the best way to "value" human experience and life.
I myself am a youth/college pastor in Indiana, maybe soon to be out with you on the west coast.
Anyways. I wanted to let you know that it's been awesome to read what you've had to say...oh btw i found your article on Relevantmagazine.com very cool and decided to try to search for you online...
i would love to talk to you more about all of this...anyways drop me a note if you ever feel like chatting...my email is reflectant@gmail.com
Nick Larson
That comment, "trying to turn all my passions into marketable products" is so what we do. Valuing questions is so important. I read about literacy a lot, and bell hooks wrote something simple once that has stuck with me: When someone disagrees with you, it shows that they are taking you seriously. Isn't that true?
Odds are you think I'm an oddball now for commenting so many times but I couldn't quit reading. Where are more entries? Get writing!
the trusest way to enter into a conversation about God is to allow all members of the conversation to be transformed. To the extent that you have been transformed by this conversation I want to congradulate you on your journey. While we might share different ideas I would not hesitate to share a pint and a good word with someone like you - someone not only of faith, but also of friendship and honesty. Remember, one cannot know faith without knowing doubt. And perhaps in our doubt we come closer to what is actually true than in accepting blindly what we are always told to believe. You know as well as I that I don't have all the answers, but I want to thank you again for searching - truly seeking after God - and more than that being friends simply for the sake of simple friendship - no conversion motive. Your walk has blessed many, those you have met and those whose eyes you will never see. I pray you are blessed in a magnitude a hundred times greater for the work you are doing. It is not only a service to your own journey, but a service to those who also struggle with the same questions and feel alone and unable to ask them for fear of hellfire and damnation. Thank you for being a blessing of light in our lives.
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