Embodying God's Justice

January is a month of key social justice issues, highlighted by Martin Luther King’s Birthday, National Religious Freedom Day, and Human Trafficking Prevention. We are in a time where social justice issues are being challenged from multiple directions locally, nationally, and globally. We are in a time when the “other” is considered to be our enemy instead of our brother or sister. Our local communities and neighborhoods need deep listeners, and we are invited to listen in ways that change how we connect and coexist with each other. This “Deep Listening” topic addresses the most threatening forms of injustice facing our culture along with historical background and insights for steps forward in today’s tensions.
How can we, as deep listeners and spiritual companions, help our communities define solutions and plan next steps? How do we prepare ourselves for the tasks we face while also practicing self-care? “Embodying God’s Justice” invites us to understand how we might bring the Spirit into all situations and foster a boldness and grace that reflects God’s intervention and wisdom for our hurting world.


The four events in our Deep Listening in the Neighborhood series include:

• Attending to Whispers in Tumultuous Times [online October 27, 2022]
• Tuning into God's New Thing [online December 1, 2022]
• Embodying God's Justice [online January 19, 2023]
• Lamenting Loss & Celebrating Life in the Neighborhood [online March 2, 2023]

Cost is $49 for each online session.

Do you hear it? Voices from every corner of current culture seem to be intensifying, calling for reliable, life-giving companions to help navigate relentless injustices, deconstructions, and upheavals. Pick the context and the need for deep listening is there. The call for deep listeners/spiritual directors has never been greater. The work of deep listeners/spiritual directors has never been more stretching.

Our Deep Listening in the Neighborhood seriesintroduces the timely, wider work of being a justice-informed listening presence beyond the traditional one-on-one conversations held in personalized settings into the dynamic swirl of our surrounding “neighborhoods.” How does context impact the practice of being present? How might attention to our neighborhoods sharpen and stretch our call as deep listeners? Join us for large and small group interactions, along with personal reflection, as we experience “Listening Together.”