Word: listened
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...discovered when I spotted Maya D. Simpson ’11 in front of the Widener steps, exhorting every be-foldered passerby to accept one of her fliers. Not yet resistant to the temptations of a neon green slip of paper, a surprising number of prefrosh were stopping to listen...
...them to therapy if they need it, or to whatever recovery or whatever things people need. But I feel like it's an honor. I can't even describe it because I think some rabbis are overwhelmed by it. I feel like God gave me this tremendous gift to listen, to have confidentiality, for privacy, and to integrate. To help people see it for themselves what God is actually saying to them. I think Judaism has internal wisdom and I'm just a conduit...
...small things are all consciousness things. Young people are more open-minded and less fearful. Fear is the basis of all these shortcomings in human behavior. So that's the one thing that we're trying to fight off. Young people are more open minded and fearless and will listen and they want change. He's the one that puts faith in politics, no matter how religious any other candidate could be. He's the one that puts hope, young people's aspirations; they use imagination and vision differently from adults, who are kind of stagnant when it comes...
Many Americans who were shocked by the clips of Wright's sermons have only known a Disney-fied version of the black church. We know about the good music, but don't listen to the lyrics of pain and suffering. We praise the rousing preaching without paying attention to the words. Civil rights leaders have become aging wise men revered for their inspirational sayings, not radical activists who preached truth to power. "There is so much more going on in black churches than gospel music," says Emilie Townes, professor of African American religion at Yale Divinity School...
...bags come out of the airplane, and I can tell you, I've got that sinking feeling in my stomach right now that we're just another day away from another one of those situations. It's going to break my heart, because we've been telling everyone to listen. We've been very careful not to be Chicken Little, but we're at the point of critical mass...