One of my favorite early feminist theologians, Nell Morton, is best known for her idea of “hearing to speech.” She writes about the power of listening deeply and really hearing each other in her book, The Journey is Home.
Morton says, “Hearing of this sort is equivalent to empowerment. We empower one another by hearing the other to speech. We empower the disinherited, the outsider, as we are able to hear them name in their own way their own oppression and suffering. In turn, we are empowered as we can put ourselves in a position to be heard by the disinherited (in this case other women) to speaking our own feeling of being caught and trapped. Hearing in this sense can break through political and social structures and image a new system. A great ear at the heart of the universe – at the heart of our common life — hearing human beings to speech — to our own speech.”
This week’s episode of the Three Minute Ministry Mentor is about listening. The story comes from two women who went from being mentor and mentee to creating a “circle of sisterhood.” At the heart of that transition was the empowering experience of listening, asking good questions, and building trust. #3MMM
Episode 87: Baptized and Ordained
Episode 86: How Women Thrive in Ministry
Episode 85: How to Start Meditating
Episode 84: A Mother’s Day Prayer
Episode 83: Finding Our Way
Episode 82: Talking Through Tragedy
Episode 81: Beauty of Motherhood, Full Conversation
Episode 80: Parenting as a Practice
Episode 79: Graceful Parenting
Episode 78: Mental Wellbeing
Episode 77: Leading in Loss
Episode 76: Self Compassion
Episode 75: Integrating Loss
Episode 74: Ambiguous Loss
Episode 73: Questions for Discernment
Episode 72: Vocational Discernment
Episode 71:Ten Important Things
3MMM | Episode 70: Embodied and Relational Reading
3MMM | Episode 69: Lenten Practices
3MMM | Episode 68: Permission to Read
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