A Teachable Spirit: The Virtue of Learning from Strangers, Enemies, and Absolutely Anyone Book cover type:Hardcover Seven Advent poems from this

Seven Advent poems from this collection will appear in the next edition of Penguin's (US) Best Spiritual Writing edited by Philip Zaleski

and examines how to care well for fellow sufferers

and even fewer―perhaps none―do so with his urgency and eloquence

showing how it has functioned as a theological concept from biblical times to the present day

Now Available for Pre-order

A Teachable Spirit: The Virtue of Learning from Strangers, Enemies, and Absolutely Anyone Book cover type:Hardcover Seven Advent poems from thisBeing a know it all isn't a fruit of the Spirit. But the ancient call of Jesus beckons us to "love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength" (Matt. 22: 37). How do we love God with our mind? In A Teachable Spirit, A. J. Swoboda helps followers of Jesus develop the discipline of teachability. In a world marked by distraction, mind numbing entertainment, endless content, polarization, and a decreasing desire to humbly learn from