Let your children see you kiss. Let them see you embrace. Let them overhear your teasing, your gentle rebukes, even your well-intentioned jealousy. Domestic courtship reinforces the notion that people are together because they want to be together, not because it is the decent, practical thing to do.
Robin R. MeyersThe American home has become the noisiest place of utter silence on earth.
Robin R. MeyersResolve to talk more and be entertained less.
Robin R. MeyersNo matter what our age, we ought to never stop eating books, for books are the feast of the imagination.
Robin R. MeyersBooks -- they come home hot in your hands and then by increments they warm your life, like heated bricks in a New England bed.
Robin R. MeyersCount calories if you like, but go ahead and gorge yourself on books. What have you got to lose but a small mind?
Robin R. MeyersConversation is how values get ordered, how passion is made contagious. If a parent talks about it, it's important. If a child is allowed to join the conversation, then that child becomes more than a table decoration, he has a part to play in the drama that is growing up. If his ideas count, then he counts. Children gain essential access to adulthood by being given a safe place to speak, and by rehearsing their thoughts out loud before the most patient and supportive audience they will ever know.
Robin R. MeyersIt is easier and much more satisfying to rail against the Right than to suggest that we go back to Genesis 1 and study together. Liberals can be just as intolerant as fundamentalists, and we have arrived at a moment in human history when intolerance and hope are mutually exclusive. (p. 6)
Robin R. MeyersTag: liberals intolerance conservatives
As long as Christianity is the dominant belief system in America, we cannot afford to be biblically or theologically illiterate, regardless of our personal beliefs. (p. 8)
Robin R. MeyersTag: christianity
In the beginning, the call of God was not propositional. It was experiential. (p. 10)
Robin R. MeyersTag: faith
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