The forgotten art of listening

Josh Moody  |  Features  |  Letter from America
Date posted:  1 Mar 2017
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The forgotten art of listening

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As I write, the signs look ominous for much of our world.

I’ve just come from a search of a recent news story seeing college students holding up placards saying ‘This is WAR’. As many will know, America has been embroiled in a low-simmering ‘culture war’ for many decades now, one that could boil over – the tensions seem to be escalating and the troubles mounting.

On the one side of the fence are right to life (anti-abortion)/capitalistic/small govern-ment/morally conservative/many evangelical Christians – though not all, despite what the news media suggest.

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