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Between the Listening and the Telling: How Stories Can Save Us

Between the Listening and the Telling: How Stories Can Save Us

"Now more than ever, we need a teacher and a book such as this."--Anne Lamott, from the foreword

Stories tether us to what matters most: our families, our friends, our hearts, our planet, the wondrous mystery of life itself. Yet the stories we've been telling ourselves as a civilization are killing us: Fear is wisdom. Vanity is virtuous. Violence is peace. In the pages of Between the Listening and the Telling, storyteller, author, and activist Mark Yaconelli leads readers into an enchanting meditation on the power of storytelling in our individual and collective lives. We tell stories to remember who we are. We tell stories to savor the pleasure of living. Stories can be medicine, and they can transform entire communities.

Through his work with The Hearth nonprofit, Yaconelli has spent thousands of hours listening to people as they grieve loss, deepen friendships, strengthen families, shed light on injustice, and recover hope. In this moving exploration he shows us how individuals and communities can recover the practice of storytelling to address the despair of climate change, the trauma of school shootings, the tragedy of undocumented immigration, and the daily struggle for meaning.

With a foreword by Anne Lamott, Between the Listening and the Telling offers an alloy of story, commentary, and meditation. In an era of runaway loneliness, alienation, global crisis, and despair, sharing stories helps us make a home within ourselves and one another.

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  • Publisher Broadleaf Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • ISBN 9781506481470
  • eBook ISBN 9781506481487
  • Dimensions 5.75 x 8.75
  • Pages 206
  • Publication Date August 9, 2022

Reviews

"The vignettes are in turn heartbreaking, funny, and consistently well written. The result is a moving testament to the power of confession."

Publishers Weekly

"This tender book invites us to create vulnerable and life-giving spaces in which to spill our own stories and to stumble onto each other's deepest and truest selves."

—Presbyterian Outlook

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