By Joe LaGuardia In the South, it is considered rude to speak over another person. It is polite to listen and yield to your conversational partner. After all, Southerners are known to be humble, mannered folk. Not so for us Italians. While growing up around a table full of bread, wine, and pasta, I learned that speaking overContinue reading “Learn from the Italians: talk over one another!”
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Community Reconciliation and the art of truthtelling
By Joe LaGuardia and Karen Woods When I was in seminary, a professor once opined that it takes three years for a church to trust a new pastor. I politely told him that his information was out of date. It takes about six years nowadays. This was in the early years of the new millennium and, since then,Continue reading “Community Reconciliation and the art of truthtelling”
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