I have the cutest little update about that Evangelical who came out of the woodwork the other night. :)
Like I said, I suspected he was a touch lonely - and unused to conversing with people on my "side" - but when I gently pointed out that the long info-dumps make it difficult to have a real conversation, while highlighting and thanking him for what little personal commentary he'd slipped between massive chunks of apologetics... he responded well! Explained his thoughts in his own terms. 1/2
Now he's just sharing where his faith gives him comfort, which is all good. He's certainly not going to make a convert out of me, but he's going away with a little less of a sense that other people having different beliefs is a threat to his own.
(#Humanism FTW!)
We 8 billion celebrate what's good in life through different names and cultural traditions... but at our core, we bleed & ache & wonder & love from the same fragile base.
I just wish that we more often remembered what unites us. 2/2