Godsplaining BONUS: Speech Acts & Training the Tongue w/ Fr. Gregory Pine
Jan 28, 2026
Fr. Gregory Pine, a Dominican friar and author focused on spiritual formation, talks about cultivating verbal virtue. He uses a garden image to show growing speech habits. Conversation, truth-telling, humor as a moral good, prayer, correction, and freedom in speaking are all explored in short, practical reflections.
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Speech Concretizes Communion
- Speech concretizes thought and enables genuine communion between people.
- Training the tongue shapes both what we think and how others form relationships with us.
Cultivate Edifying Speech
- Focus on planting good verbal habits instead of only weeding out bad speech.
- Cultivate edifying speech to push vices to the periphery and beautify conversation.
Build Communion On Truth
- Prioritize truth-telling to give others firm ground for building relationships.
- Use truthful speech to found genuine communion rather than unstable false agreements.
