Items tagged listening

• Listening to literature

  A review of Speak What We Feel (Not What We Ought to Say): Reflections on Literature and Faith by Frederick Buechner.

• Idle chatter is the Lord's playground

  On listening as worship and as ministry.

• Com-unity

  An overview of community principles practiced at The Hermitage Community.

• Just show up

  The athlete’s mantra as a guide to a healthier perspective.

• An ode to the ambidextrous

  Overcoming political fundamentalism with a little openness.

• The mouse that roared

  A sixth grade boy stumbles upon mystique on the middle school stage.

• Encountering music

  What happens when we open ourselves up to meeting songs with a posture of hospitality?

• Quantity and quality

  A new angle on abundance shapes a shift in relationship.

• Habits of the hands

  Spring rolls around again with broken earth and broken promises.

• Confessions of a techno-literary Luddite

  The question of whether Google is making us "stoopid" may only begin to assess what we stand to lose.

• Global Spirit

  Ten world music albums that inspire wonder at the range of human creativity.

• Staying behind

  On Spirit, truth and silence in the off-seasons of a college town.

• Popularity contest

  Examining the notion of popular culture in a segregated society.

• From “doing” to “communing”

  Recovering the practice of retreat in our lives and in our worship.