Hello, Long time no see! :) Below is from the Writer's Almanac today...Quite relevant to how the Dialogue operates! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It was on this day in 1838 that Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered 'The Divinity School Address' at Harvard. There were about 100 people in the audience, including six of the seven graduates of Harvard Divinity School, as well as faculty, ministers, and former graduates. Emerson had graduated from Harvard Divinity in 1826, and the graduating students had chosen him as the speaker for this event. The year before, he had given a lecture called 'The American Scholar' to the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa society. It was controversial but popular, and the students were eager to have him back. Emerson had been a Unitarian minister, but he had resigned a few years earlier. He was skeptical of the Communion ritual, and of the whole concept of public prayer — he felt it should be a private, individual expression. Emerso
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