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🗓️ 28 May 2016
⏱️ 25 minutes
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This week, Dan Allender continues a conversation with Dr. Keith Anderson, President of The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology, about Keith’s new book, A Spirituality of Listening. Dan and Keith talk about what it means to embody both pragmatism and mysticism, and about how both perspectives can teach us to listen more deeply for the voice of God.
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0:00.0 | You're listening to the Allender Center podcast with Dr. Dan Allender. |
0:08.1 | This week, Dan continues a conversation with Dr. Keith Anderson, president of the Seattle School of |
0:13.8 | Theology and Psychology, about Keith's new book, A Spirituality of Listening. |
0:18.7 | Dan and Keith talk about what it means to embody both pragmatism and |
0:21.9 | mysticism and about how both perspectives can teach us to listen more deeply for the voice of God. |
0:27.8 | Well, I'm back with Keith Anderson. We spoke last week about his new book, A Spirituality of |
0:34.8 | Listening, Living What We Hear, in a varsity press book, and with just delightful content and brilliant writing. |
0:46.3 | And where I left off, Keith, is the section that you wrote about coming to listen to our own story. |
0:57.5 | It's just material that it would be advisable just to read it, but I'm not going to do that. I'm just going to underline that you |
1:02.6 | invite us to know that we have perspectives, a point of view. But when the point of view changes, |
1:08.3 | so does our story, or at least enough of our story, |
1:11.2 | that we begin to look at it from a different perspective. |
1:13.9 | So let me just give the listener a sense of that. |
1:19.0 | Keith, you invite us to read like a reporter, looking for description of facts, what is heard, |
1:23.8 | seen, tasted, touched, and smelled. |
1:26.1 | Look first at the details of what is told. Then you say, |
1:30.3 | read like an artist, looking at the imagery and words, chosen to describe events and figures |
1:35.5 | of speech, especially similes, metaphors to describe the events felt like to the writer. Look for |
1:41.4 | hints or whispers of God's voice in your story. So you give six separate |
1:47.8 | categories. Read like an exe. Read like a geographer. Read like an English teacher. Read like a |
1:54.5 | classmate and a learning community. Read like a writer. Number seven. Read like a librarian. |
2:00.4 | Read like a reader. I mean, when librarian read like a reader I mean when I read |
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