Better listening

In articles elsewhere in this edition of en we hear two important observations about the virtues of listening.

Dan Strange says: ‘It is an important Christian virtue to listen like this in a polarised age, where people are talking past each other.’ And Steve Midgley states: ‘We need both the courage to speak and the humility to listen.’

It is something, of course, that Jesus emphasises when He reminds us to truly listen to God’s Word: ‘Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear!’