[D.P.Roberts]

"We had to destroy the coffehouse in order to save it."

[TXBubba]

She'd grown concerned that some students didn't know they were volunteering with a Christian endeavor

Well, duh. Based on the Jewish student and the ones that don't go to church I wonder how she figured this out. No offense to either but it doesn't sound like someone was screening folks at the door. I can't imagine either signing up to spread the Christian message. This is just weird.

[Dog Gone]

Well, you can be a church, or you can be a public restaurant with a hippy-leftist agenda.

It's hard to be both.

[cyborg]

It's a coffeehouse, not a church. They can encourage people to adopt christianity but I like to be left alone with a cup of coffee.

[DeweyCA]

I may certainly be wrong, and I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, but these "Campus Ministy" projects by mainline denominations (in this case Methodist), in my experience, are often started and run by liberal Christians who really don't know what they believe. It sounds like they started with fuzzy goals, and then went even further off track by hiring mostly non-Christians, until finally some responsible lay board member asked what in the world they were actually accomplishing with the money that was being spent to support this "ministry."

[weegee]

"After years of cleaning the bathrooms and mopping the floors, you'd think we'd be consulted about the new direction of the place," she said.

[DJ MacWoW]

ping

[GladesGuru]

"I'll have a double espresso, heavy on the sugar, and light on the Jesus."

As any salesman knows, ramming a sales pitch down a potential customer's throat is a sure lost sale. Those sincerely interestred in preaching the Word know this.

Could this be a case of either baaaaad management or - a tempest in a coffee pot?

[Billthedrill]

I should think the sponsors can run it any way they like. Let the market decide. If the customers mind, they won't come; if they don't, they will.

[DocRock]

"After years of cleaning the bathrooms and mopping the floors, you'd think we'd be consulted about the new direction of the place,"

Reminds me of this Bud Lite radio commercial.

[Reaganesque]

"It's not welcoming," said Hoyt, who is Jewish. "I think people are really scared about being proselytized while they have a cup of coffee."

And just what did you expect, going into a coffee house established by Christians for the express purpose of spreading Chrisitianity? You can't go to the Starbucks just across the street or any of the dozen or more coffee shops within walking distance? Who's forcing what on whom, genius boy? Maybe if you were as "intelligent" and "tolerant" as you claim to be, this wouldn't be a problem.

[Minus_The_Bear]

Man, any conservatie, Christian, or non-mouthbreather who lives in 'Consin and can put up with these Trotskyites has my UTMOST RESPECT

[yankeedame]

...reputation for religious tolerance and open- minded discussions...

Advise to my daughter:

1) Never date a man who goes antique shopping with this mother.

2) Stay away from a man whose looking for a girlfriend who's "open minded". Chances are you're not that open minded.