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Jay Dyer and James Kelley begin the “real blog”, a friendship against the odds
By James Kelley | August 9, 2008
Dear readers,
Even though I aggresively attacked his ideas in my last two posts, Mr. Jay Dyer has since shown himself to be an icon of manliness and aplomb. Even though I insisted on pressing issues on my blog that Mr. Dyer pleaded with me to confine to one-on-one discussion with him, this fine gentleman has still given me a chance to become his friend. I emailed him my number, thinking he would never call, but he did.
Suffice it to say that if I get nothing else out of this website, I have made a friend, a man of character and refinement. Remember Polonius’ admonition to his son Laertes?:
“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel”
Mr. Jay Dyer has shown himself to be a better man than I have been, which means he fulfills my first (and only) prerequisite for friendship. I don’t want to surround myself with men who are less than me, for what have I to learn from them? Let us press ahead with courage and manliness in our common quest for truth, and let lesser men scurry aside and marvel at our resolve.
In Christ,
James L. Kelley
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August 12th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
This is great, James. I’m glad to see stuff like this on here. In the flurry of internet rhetoric, it’s easy to lose the friends you already have, not to speak of making new ones! I’m glad you guys can treat each other like human beings in spite of (very real) theological differences.
August 30th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
James,
You are far too kind in this, and I am honored. I feel much the same way, and look forward to dialogue and correction. As St. Augustine said, once he converted, he only wanted to know the Truth.
A sinner,
Jay