Rev Dr Andrew Sloane is Dean of Bible and Theology, and Lecturer in Old Testament and Christian Thought, and Director of Postgraduate Studies at Morling College, Sydney. In this article he reflects on the importance and value of meaningful face-to-face communication.
"We are fundamentally relational and social beings. We are created in and for relationships—with God, sure, but also with other flesh and blood humans, as Genesis 2:18 tells us. Those relationships operate at the broad social level, but they are also interpersonal, expressed in small gatherings of people interacting with each other.
The best interactions often involve sharing food and drink (which is why conviviality and hospitality are so important), and they always involve meaningful two-way communication—in short, conversation. They generally occur most profoundly in shared time and space. We are, after all, embodied beings. Limited, it is true, by space and time, but also enabled by it.[3] It is when we breathe the same air that our shared breath condenses into new ideas, insights, new possibilities, new questions."
https://www.case.edu.au/blogs/case-subscription-library/the-lost-art-of-conversation
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