Abstract
Allow me initial place to recognize my own social location as a the US, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.1 From a personal and professional perspective, my thoughts below have in mind the continuing impact of whiteness as a pervasive preoccupation with mastery over others that subsumes both difference and distinctions.2 As a leader of congregations, I have witnessed this implicit bias present among them, and I see how it continues to inform both the theory and practice of much of our faith communities. Congregational reticence to engage spiritual practices of listening may, in fact, be tied into these larger cultural biases as well. Listening holds place for reflecting on one’s own social position and offers a critical place for doing faithful theological engagement.
Recommended Citation
Hahn, David
(2020)
""Hearing To Speech": A Participatory Theology of World-Dwelling As Congregational Formation In God's Mission,"
Quaker Religious Thought: Vol. 134, Article 4.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/qrt/vol134/iss1/4