Be Part of a “Listening Team”

In a setting that now feels like an eternity ago - when I was emerging from the house to commute to campus - this essay, “Be Part of a Listening Team: A Response to the Coronavirus,” published in the Focolare’s monthly magazine, Living City, reflects on how the example of love and care for neighbors in the wake of the Taal volcano eruption in the Philippines shines a light on a personal response to the Coronavirus crisis.   Even if, for the time being, we are not chatting in the halls with colleagues or holding in-person office hours, I sense that many are nonetheless finding numerous creative ways to continue to be part of a “listening team.”