The Art of Listening, Justice, and Peacebuilding

Cruciform Conversations · Dec 18, 2025 · 46m

“I’m thinking of a poem by Hafez that says, “How do I listen to others as if everyone were my beloved and speaking to me her cherished last words?”So there’s a sense of sacredness, I think, because listening comes from a place of love. To listen to someone, you at least have to enter into curiosity about the other and a sense of their sacredness, of their belovedness, that there is something always to learn, even if we disagree or if we are in conflict. That’s a very difficult thing to do, but I feel like it’s something that enters into a kind of collaboration with the Holy Spirit. What has…