Shhhh! The Art of Listening in an Inattentive Culture

Speaker(s): Susan Phillips
Date: July 16 2012
Length: 79min
Product ID: RGDL4200N

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Like friendship, listening is remarkably neglected by scholars. Even more surprising, it receives scant attention within the church: we who are called to "listen" to God and God's beloved. In our day of shallow, broad connection, much of it in the forms of texting and posting, there's growing evidence from a variety of fields that the deep, attentional art of listening is health-inducing and life-enhancing, countering some of the pathogenic elements in our environment. Moreover, listening just might be essential to sanctification. Susan Phillips reflects on listening's significance in our lives of citizenship, discipleship, and fellowship.

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Susan S. Phillips is Executive Director and Professor of Christianity and Sociology at New College Berkeley (an affiliate of the Graduate Theological Union in California). Susan is keenly interested in how engaging the caring practices will shape us spiritually. She is a certified spiritual director (Mercy Center, Burlingame, California) and has practised spiritual direction since the early 1990s. She edited (with Patricia Benner) The Crisis of Care and her most recent book is Candlelight: Illuminating the Art of Spiritual Direction.

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