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7 Tactics to Redirect Toxic, Divisive Topics This Thanksgiving 🦃

Dive Deeper

Something is burning in my heart that one of you needs to hear and be encouraged by.

Maybe your Thanksgiving gathering is perfect–no conflict, no issues, no concerns. If so, Whoohoo You! 🍗🎁

But for the rest of us, Thanksgiving can sometimes feel more like Dreadsgiving, as we try to navigate awkward moments, chasms of differing perspectives, decades of baggage and hurts, or that particular person who tends to hijack the conversation and mood with political rants.

Little Known Ways to Handle Conflict Well

Bible Study, Leadership

Who stomped on your nerves this week? When was the last time someone annoyed you with their strong-willed opinion? How did you respond when someone refused to drop a prickly topic? If you’re living a healthy, vibrant life in a community, you’ll run smack into people...

The Benefits of Creative Conflict

Dive Deeper

  Nancy Ortberg once noted that “conflict is the only way to intimacy.”  While I’m not convinced it’s the “only” way to intimacy, I do believe that when handled well conflict can create increase respect, spark creativity, and give birth to a better project, idea, or...