Living the Questions: Can conversation make any difference at a moment like this?
\u201cConversation is not just about words passing between mouths and ears. It\u2019s about shared life. Listening is about bringing our lives into conversation.\u201d\nAbout the Living the Questions series, from Krista Tippett:\n\u201cI think of a good conversation as an adventure. You create a generous and trustworthy space for it, and prepare hospitably for it, so the other person will feel so welcome and understood that they will put words around something they have never put words around quite that way before. They will give voice to something they didn\u2019t know they knew \u2014 and you will be a witness to thinking, revelation, in real time. This is one reason that radio/podcasting is such a magical medium: Everyone who listens joins that room, becomes a witness, the moment they push \u201cplay.\u201d They are also there for the revelation. It\u2019s a form of time travel. And if the conversation is edifying (one of my favorite, underused words), we all sync up in some mysterious way across time and space and grow a little together.\nIn recent years, I\u2019ve discovered that I really like being on the other side of a conversation too. Maybe because I\u2019ve experienced that thrill of revelation so many times, I approach someone asking questions of me with great anticipation of what they will draw out of me that I can\u2019t draw out of myself. So, last summer on social media, my colleagues and I asked for questions you\u2019d want to throw at me. We received, and continue to receive, such a bounty.\u201d\nFind more at onbeing.org/series/living-the-questions/.