Earlier this week, my wife and I were doing training with a group of volunteers who serve as "Welcomers" or Missionary Member Care volunteers for Filipinos who serve as cross-cultural missionaries. Many of them were pastors or pastors' wives. We were promoting the "Active Listening" and the "Ministry of Silence." My wife was sharing how …
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Teaching Interreligious Dialogue here in seminary, I decided to write my own book because I did not care much for the books that already exist in that topic. I was planning to give my latest group of students a "beta" version of the book to review. However, in a rare burst of energy I finished …
Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking where they should be listening. But he who can no longer listen to his brother will soon be no longer listening to God either; he will be doing nothing but prattle in the …