As conservative writers from Virginia's political blogosphere spend today in Richmond at Bill Bolling's Bloggers Day, I am in the Valley baking Laura Bush's Texas Cowboy Cookies for a get-together tonight of fellow Capstone classmates.
Though I would love to have been at Lt. Governor Bolling's event, I knew we wouldn't be back to the Valley in time for my 6:45 class, the last one of a series that has been going on since January. The group of a dozen like-minded conservatives, under the direction of Dean Welty from the Valley Family Forum in Harrisonburg, has enjoyed reading the book, Why You Can't Stay Silent: A Biblical Mandate to Shape Our Culture, by Focus on the Family's Tom Minnery.
We have participated in lively discussion and debates at our Wednesday night meetings, delved into the Bible, talked about social actions in Harrisonburg and the SWAC area (Weekday Religious Education, Marriage Amendment, Adult Ordinances, Support the Troops rallies, and more), and learned from one another's viewpoints in faith (Catholic, Methodist, Baptist, evangelical). The group even includes the former chairman of the Augusta County Republican Committee as well as the chairman of the Augusta County Constitution Party.
Tonight is our graduation and final meeting as a group (for now)... and so I'm baking cookies and finishing the final assignment. My thanks to Dean Welty and his lovely wife, Janet, for sharing their time and knowledge with us as we move forward working for the principles we believe in.
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