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Inviting Dialogue in Higher Education

What roles can dialogue play in higher education? Might it complement technology-oriented, job-training majors? Improve relationships between the dean’s office and student protesters, or striking unions and the president? What about dialogue’s role for physics majors, Latino community members, campus police, and tenure committees?

New Workshop for Clergy and Lay Leaders: Transforming Divisive Conversation

August 24, 2010 — While communities of faith typically value diversity, it’s not uncommon for conflict to arise around difference in theology, worship, and transition (just to name a few.)

Movie + Dialogue

August 18, 2010 — How do broader public issues affect families and communities in the ways they live together and interact? The purpose of our movie night series is to increase awareness of timely topics and their effects, and to give participants an opportunity to discuss the social, political, and environmental concerns these films raise.

Table Talk

August 12, 2010 — Close your eyes for a moment and think back to the family dinners of your youth. What do you remember? The aroma of a favorite meal or a rushed trip to a fast food drive-through? Laughter or lots of rules? Fighting at the table or engaging conversation that helped shape your thinking about important matters?

Pathways for Mutual Respect

Meta-Culture

July 22, 2010 — Last month, I had the privilege of participating in a two-week summer institute at Yale Divinity School put on by the Yale Center for Faith and Culture and an organization called Pathways for Mutual Respect.