| Tongues of fire, everywhere. In this loud and furious age, a time of protests and counter-protests, words come burning, singeing, scalding, stinging. "Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry," James wrote, "because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires" (1:19–20). But few of us—even those of us who follow Christ—seem to believe that listening more than we speak could possibly meet the reality of ... |
