{"id":54822,"date":"2016-06-22T00:02:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T00:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/c_of_e_booklet-grace_and_dialogue_shared_conversations_on_difficult_issues\/"},"modified":"2016-06-22T00:02:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T00:02:10","slug":"c_of_e_booklet-grace_and_dialogue_shared_conversations_on_difficult_issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54822","title":{"rendered":"C of E Booklet&#8211;Grace and Dialogue: Shared Conversations on Difficult Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In many ways disagreement is healthy. It shows that people really care about things, and perhaps disagreement is an inevitable corollary of all change: it\u2019s often about who has to change, the cost of change, and who has to pay it.<\/p>\n<p>But disagreement can also be divisive, destructive and dangerous to our health, both individually and collectively. It can disguise the many things we do agree about; it can distort people\u2019s understanding of what being a Christian means; and it can dismay and divert those who would otherwise join us.<br \/>\nIf disagreement is inevitable then we have to learn to do it better. This suggests finding ways that enable us to understand fully what we disagree about, and why.<\/p>\n<p>These notes set out some ways to help us turn debate and confrontation into dialogue, empathy, shared understanding and the commitment to love each other even when \u201d\u201c perhaps especially when \u201d\u201c we are deeply opposed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/media\/2529621\/grace_and_dialogue.pdf\">Read it all<\/a> (15 page pdf).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In many ways disagreement is healthy. It shows that people really care about things, and perhaps disagreement is an inevitable corollary of all change: it\u2019s often about who has to change, the cost of change, and who has to pay<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54822\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,39,74,175,389,168,437,435,184,177,129,108,514,79,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}