Learning What It’s Like to be the Other Person

Two TV channels owned by the same company showed vastly different events happening literally blocks from one another one evening recently. On NBC, viewers could watch the lighting of the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center. Over on MSNBC, and every other cable news...

4 Ways to Keep Your Political Speech Civil

The book of James diagnoses one of our greatest inconsistencies as Christians. James 3:9-10 says, “With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and...

Learning to Listen for the Common Good

When I sit down with couples who are either married or thinking about marriage, one of the first things we tend to work on is the ability to listen attentively to each other. Listening attentively is more difficult than it sounds. Usually, when we are speaking with...