Comments on: Inspired By A Cigar Room

By: strider

strider — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:52:00 +0000

I’m totally down with a pub hour. I’m even open to sharing my own home brew.

By: Natros

Natros — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:11:00 +0000

I’ve been thinking along these lines for a little while. I see the value in a men’s forum at church, but the fact of the matter is that it feels like a rather artificial environment for sharing meaningful things. In my experience, the deepest conversations with other men do come in the context of doing thing: hiking, sitting around a campfire, or relaxing in a pub. I think it’s valuable to be somewhat intentional about having conversations in those environments, too, but somehow they feel like safer environments to just talk about what’s going on or what we think.

I’d gladly have our next men’s meeting at a cigar lounge: give me a time and a place! It sounds like it was a great place to meet some new people that you might not have interacted with otherwise as well, which is also a good thing.

By: Papa Hill

Papa Hill — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:28:00 +0000

This is almost as shocking as going to eat at the tax man’s home!

Leon (alias Papa Hill in Japan)

By: Evonne

Evonne — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:46:00 +0000

The Inklings met in a pub and no one would think to call J.R.R.Tolkien, C.S.Lewis, Charles Williams, Dorothy Sayers, or ? (I don’t remember his name)nonspiritual. Sometimes Christians are so busy sanitizing their lives they miss the joy and companionship they might otherwise enjoy. We are uncomfortable with moderation. “Don’t teach me about truth and beauty, just label my music…Don’t teach me about liberty and moderation…just give me a shot of grape juice…Do not be afraid…”

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:02:00 +0000

well said…. I have enjoyed these truths since my days at Cedarville… lets discuss these ides over a Shiner Bock at Velocity!