Everyone Deserves Listening

This summer, two Harvard Divinity School students spent their evenings with us: on the streets, on the phones, and at our open-air gatherings. Paige Scanlon and Audrey Zhou completed a unit of Clinical Pastoral Education with Night Ministry, and they’ve written about what they found.

Read their reflection at Harvard Divinity School

Paige writes about how heartbreak can connect people, and about the respite she and Audrey found in a bilingual chair yoga pilot offered outside train stations. Audrey writes about learning to trust that simply listening, without an agenda, meets a real need. As the article puts it, “Everyone deserves to be listened to.”