How Do We Love Others Well?

Adam Smith: I want to ask you about a specific chapter in your most recent book Good and Beautiful and Kind. He argues that if we want to love other people well we need to understand what we're up against, sin, powers and principalities and trauma. To combat these three forces he says each of us needs to develop practices such as contemplative prayer, humility and the cultivation of calm presence. This is not over yet there's a whole other section of the book where you talk about the importance of engaging in healthy conflict, forgiveness and doing justice. So again like the scope of this book is vast and we can't cover it in a podcast episode but since my podcast is about trauma