Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. Colossians 3:6
Kathleen S Evenhouse
Writing With Vision
Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. Colossians 3:6
This is something we teach. Often adults think they already know this. I hate it when I come home, and people are so mesmerized by their phones or the television, that they don’t return my greeting. I don’t even like it if they mumble an obligatory “hello” but never look up and make eye contact.… Read More
Conversation does not seem to be a valued skill in America today. We are good at pointing fingers, making judgments, taking sides, insisting we are right and that we we have rights, and looking out for #1. After all, “we’re worth it.” Conversation happens in that middle space between two opposing viewpoints, between authority and… Read More
Conversation Group #1: “Which one is Ruth? You’re kidding, right? She’s one who doesn’t look at all like the rest of us.” “Can you believe that accent—you can’t understand a word she’s saying, and she walks around Bethlehem as if she thinks she belongs here. I don’t like it.” “Poor Naomi—to have a woman like… Read More