The Hanover Collaboration

Here are the closing remarks from a really inspirational article from the first page of the D today.

“We’re not in adversarial mode. We don’t view it as ‘us against them.’ We’re about how do you find grace, how do you find wholeness, if you’re broken,” [Craig] Parker said. “I don’t care that people get drunk on Friday night. I want to know what it is that causes a person to drink, causes a person to cut themselves, causes a person to have an eating disorder, what’s going on in a person’s head and heart. And I’m more concerned with that than just the stemming immorality.”

I think that the second part of that question belies the first. Does anyone else agree? Let’s have a competition for who can write the best 500-1000 words in “adversarial mode” and try to have them put it in the D.

This Parker chap runs the Navigators at Dartmouth and is fond of reminding us that Dartmouth was founded to convert the Indayans. The way I learned it was that the college was also founded on 500 gallons of old New England rum.

¹ I didn’t really know what Evangelical meant. I found this pretty edifying.