Posts Tagged ‘difficult topics’
Tips for having difficult conversations
As a follow-up from our winter study on difficult conversations, the Network from the Christian Reformed Church provides a list of helpful resources for engaging in difficult conversations. They highlight Richard Mouw’s book, Uncommon Decency, as well as the Colossian Forum, and a number of different blog posts and websites. For those truly interested in…
Read MoreWhy have the hard conversations?
At the recent Christian Reformed Campus ministry association conference we talked about a lot of hard things: racism, abuse of power, and sexuality (and all in one day!). It hadn’t really occurred to me that people might perceive this as strange until one person asked me why we were focusing on all these things and…
Read MoreHow historical is the resurrection?
We’ve been talking this last semester about difficult topics in the Bible, and one of the topics has been how historical certain events in the Bible are. One event that presents a challenge to our understanding of how historical the events in the Bible are is the flood. After pointing out that “a global deluge…
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