Expanding the Conversation

In case you are looking for where to sign up for the weekly Something to Ponder mailings I have been sending out for the past couple of years I should let you know that I am no longer offering these. It’s time to expand the conversation by moving it from a monologue to a dialogue!

Since starting these weekly mailings, I have established a Facebook Page (www.facebook.com/DrDavidGBenner) that provides the platform for this dialogue. Although its focus is slightly broader – walking the human path in a deeply spiritual way and the spiritual path in a deeply human way – I include regular posts from my books, occasional excerpts from books I am presently writing, quotes from others that speak to me, and many posts built around original material written just for this Facebook Page. More importantly, however – and the reason I am shifting to make that Page my primary way of interacting with people other than by my books – is that the communication on that page is not one-way. What makes it particularly rich for me and for those who “Like” the page is that it is a forum for dialogue, not simply monologue. I respond to every question presented to me there, and people have an opportunity to interact with each other, not just with me. In short, it has become an on-line community in which those of us who share an interest in an authentic, lived Christian spirituality can journey together.

It has been a privilege and great joy to share this awesome journey with you in these various ways. I hope we will be able to continue to do so through my Facebook Page (www.facebook.com/DrDavidGBenner), my books and this website.  Brazos Press will release my next book – Presence and Encounter: Sacramental Possibilities of Everyday Life – in September 2014 and the one that I expect to follow it is well under way. So, keep watch and keep in touch!