Conversations with Conservatives is a group that meets in Spencer, Iowa the last Wednesday of every month, 6:30 PM at the Grand Avenue Community Outreach.
We have read the headlines and know that we can no longer allow others to direct our future, we must direct our own. We must once again learn the art of debate. We must learn to discuss our difference of opinions politely rather than allowing ourselves to be shouted down and threatened into acquiescence.
I remember a few things from college. One was from my Theology professor. He said “Why do you believe anything you cannot question?” Questioning things is the first step to learning.
Conversations with Conservatives offers a different speaker each week and then a time to discuss current issues. We must rebuild our country from the bottom up because top-down does not seem to be working.
Many of us have signed up to man the GOP booth at the Clay County Fair this next week. There will also be current lawmakers and ones running for office. Please come by to discuss your opinions.
We do hope to see you at our meetings. Come with your own individual perspective, come with information, come with a teachable spirit. Come and let us reason together.
Author: Janna Swanson
Janna Swanson helps her husband Paul farm in NW Iowa with their two young daughters. Since 2013 Janna has volunteered her time and energy for her community. She was a key member of the Preservation of Rural Iowa Alliance that protected landowners from the Rock Island Clean Line. From there she helped start and facilitated the grassroots group, The Coalition for Rural Property Rights to help protect community members from industrial wind installations. She is also a board member of National Wind Watch, a 25-year online collection of information of the industrial wind opposition from around the world. Most importantly Janna is a follower of Christ and seeks to help others to know and understand Him. Yet because she is also seeking deepening her own knowledge and understanding she welcomes critical, constructive debate. No one has the corner on truth, we all see “through a glass, darkly”. (I Corinthians 13:12)
