The Discipline of Inspiration: Learning from Carey Wallace

Womanist theologian Emilie Townes beautifully shares the fullness of liberation as a process. In her article “Ethics as an Art of Doing the Work Our Souls Must Have” that appears in the anthology Womanist Theological Ethics: A Reader, she speaks about how distinct liberation and freedom are: “An important distinction must be made: liberation and fr

The only essential is the self-discipline, and it’s not necessarily about doing anything formal. It’s more to do with our ability to listen inwardly to the Truth inside us. The real discipline is to pause. We have to learn how to pause and listen inwardly to life. Without that discipline, we can’t really get anywhere at all.