58. Communion with Reality, with Esther Lightcap Meek, author of A Little Manual for Knowing

In this episode, Esther Lightcap Meek and I talk about love as the starting point for truly knowing reality, what it means to experience communion with the real—and why this matters for the on-the-ground work that you and I are doing as leaders of God’s people.

THIS EPISODE'S HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE

• Esther Lightcap Meek is Professor of Philosophy at Geneva College and author of A Little Manual for Knowing.
• In chapter one of A Little Manual for Knowing, Esther states that “reality is a gift, and love is at the core of all things.  It is not impersonal; rather, it is person-like.”
• The pilgrimage of knowing begins with love, not with information.
• Active listening invites the real.  Not mere passive collecting of information, but actively inviting reality to self-disclose.
• Because we’ve reduced knowledge in the modern West to little bits of information, we can’t see what is really there.
• We need to go into our communities in humility looking for what God is already at work doing there.
• Creation is in its essence the love of God.  It is the expression of God’s love.
• When we truly begin to know reality, we enter into communion with that which is known.

RELEVANT RESOURCES AND LINKS

• Esther Lightcap Meek
  • Website:  http://www.longingtoknow.com/
  • Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/Esther-Lightcap-Meek-110487169038640/
• Books mentioned
  • A Little Manual for Knowing by Esther Lightcap Meek
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