I recently started wearing my first completely wireless pair of earbuds. At first I would leave them in my ear even when I talked with my wife or kids. But I began to wonder, with the help of modern science, Herman Bavinck, and the Thomistic tradition,[1] should I be wearing something designed to cut me off, auditorily at least, from those I’m called to love? If Bonhoeffer is right when he says the first service that one owes to others consists in listening to them, do headphones impede this duty?
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