Discovering Mutual Delight: A Conversation with DeAmon Harges

At the Table: Christian Community for the Common Good

Today’s episode is a conversation with DeAmon Harges, the original roving listener. DeAmon has been about that place-based work for his whole life, and credits his grandparents with instilling the skills and temperament for listening deeply within community. A couple months ago, I interviewed Pastor Mike Mather on the podcast, who worked alongside DeAmon at Broadway Methodist Church in South Bend, Indiana. Pastor Mike told me that DeAmon work as the Roving Listener broadened his and the congregation’s view of the neighbors and the neighborhood, revealing the wild abundance of gifts present in the blocks near the church.
DeAmon continues to listen and animate the gifts of his community through an organization he found with his neighbors called the Learning Tree, and his wisdom about how to discover and practice abundance is a gift to the church and the neighborhoods they live in. I hope you enjoy this conversation with DeAmon Harges.
DeAmon Harges | Institute Faculty | ABCD Institute | DePaul University, Chicago
The Learning Tree (thelearningtrees.com)
Music by Oleksii Kaplunskyi from Pixabay