communication – Heather Choate Davis

A faithful response

“Orthodoxy moves, because times change. It is not a matter of always saying the same thing in the same way, but of responding faithfully to our changing setting as our ancestors did to theirs.” Brian McLaren

Words Matter

“We live in an era that is reliant on words, but our words are no longer reliable.” So it says in the opening chapter of Loaded Words, setting the foundation for the book itself. How can we know what anyone means when they choose to use a certain word? Are they choosing it for clarity? Manipulation?Continue reading “Words Matter”

Listen

We hear this word a lot. We don’t heed its call much, but we sure hear it— probably because we do it so poorly. I think we’re bad at listening because we live in a culture where a standard news or talk show format features four people talking over each other from a list ofContinue reading “Listen”