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View ArticlePart 1: Read an Excerpt from My New Book #OurLastOption
Are you wondering what Our Last Option: How a New Approach to Civility can Save the Public Square (US, Canada, UK), is all about? Here are the Table of Contents, and the beginning portion to the...
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You can look at the Table of Contents and read an excerpt from the Preface here. This is an excerpt from the Introduction our my new ebook Our Last Option: How a New Approach to Civility can Save the...
View ArticleOur Last Option: Reconciliation
The point is that a lifestyle of actual reconciliation is not something that can be turned on and off. The most difficult thing for anyone to do is be the first one to stand up. Yet once that first...
View ArticleBuilding Bridges
Inherent within bridge building is the necessity to intentionally partner and work with both worldviews. One cannot build a bridge without both worldviews present, and further: Both of the opposing...
View ArticleAn Ethic of Inclusion
Practicing an ethic of inclusion does not mean that in order for opposing worldviews to come together there must be a lack of conviction on the part of any of the participants. Too often, partisan...
View ArticleOn Fidelity
The pressure to convince the other of your correctness fosters defensiveness. Commitment to the long view of sustained in-person interaction between strongly opposed worldviews is never an easy...
View ArticleImpact Trumps Power
“Current culture war ideology says with correctness comes power. Add on to that the fact that many in today’s power-based culture believe that power is the key factor which influences the masses....
View ArticleSuch a Bridge Is Possible
“When trapped in a power-based system where the dominant entity dictates cultural normalcy, anything outside the traditional realm of what is commonly understood as acceptable is automatically viewed...
View ArticleConforming Toward Normalcy
Even though for many there is no longer a need to conform to conservative or Christian values, the felt needs to conform towards normalcy are no less intense. Just look to the popular MTV show Catfish....
View ArticleMy ebook, Our Last Option, is Patheos Book Club’s Book of the Month
I just got word that my ebook, Our Last Option: How a New Approach to Civility can Save the Public Square, is the Patheos Book Club’s book of the month. Check out the interview I did with Patheos...
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