https://www.havingdifficultconversations.com/home daily 1.0 2023-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e553c9d941e364924cdb746/1583270353592-I5DA9ZQRHOBP6RQOKIPK/brene-brown-dare-to-lead-ftr.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e553c9d941e364924cdb746/1586973593065-B1H0MP9E68RDUDWD2MY2/priya_parker_by_jeff_allen_1.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e553c9d941e364924cdb746/1625585128868-3Z6GRKESHYH9S0UXH9VI/WestGeorge.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e553c9d941e364924cdb746/1586971336333-FWOUWEJM686XKVDKLQZB/KateMurphy_creditKaren-Keith-1.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e553c9d941e364924cdb746/1592350821402-I2LO5IC8EA9IPA7MWOG3/EDOT-logo-white.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e553c9d941e364924cdb746/1592167201277-9NGEJJZLLHLFQDSJFP2F/KI_PRIMARY.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e553c9d941e364924cdb746/1583953011864-27ONO6PFDFVBA5HEEK00/Untitled+design+%284%29.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e553c9d941e364924cdb746/1588349393907-5ZNIBUE0ENJL8SCBFVPF/https___cdn.evbuc.com_images_98007898_141696863160_1_original.jpeg https://www.havingdifficultconversations.com/citizen daily 0.75 2020-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e553c9d941e364924cdb746/1583275300808-VOXZCWA3NHAAJSVQEOJK/Citizen_FinalCover_300RGB.jpg Citizen Book - Citizen helps Christians find our place in the politics of the world. In these pages, Bishop Andy Doyle offers a Christian virtue ethic grounded in fresh anthropology. He offers a vision of the individual Christian within the reign of God and the life of the broader community. He adds to the conversation in both church and culture by offering a renewed theological underpinning to the complex nature of Christianity in a post-modern world. How did we get here? Is this the way it has to be? Are there implications for conversations about politics within the church? Doyle contends that our current debates are not about one partisan narrative winning, but communities of diversity being unified by a relationship with God's grand narrative. Crafting a deep theological conversation with a unified approach to the Old and New Testament, Citizen asks, what does it truly mean to live in community? https://www.havingdifficultconversations.com/resources daily 0.75 2020-06-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e553c9d941e364924cdb746/1592342047454-BAF0XMMGK2VPZDNN818P/civil_discourse_logo_finall.png Recommended Resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e553c9d941e364924cdb746/1592342252125-3HLX1NYPBW8ZUM9UP7D3/KI_PRIMARY.jpg Recommended Resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e553c9d941e364924cdb746/1588344569619-U26I1XPATZEBSB6DM977/image-asset.jpeg Recommended Resources - Beyond Gated Politics By Romand Coles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e553c9d941e364924cdb746/1588345538538-8POWENNN0Q5M2Y5CCNT5/courageous+conversation+logo.png Recommended Resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e553c9d941e364924cdb746/1591381293946-2SD5IUK46LH7CWK5T3QP/Beloved_Community_Logo.png Recommended Resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e553c9d941e364924cdb746/1588345317003-DE6D3HLQJRSAVIL4MCHR/https___cdn.evbuc.com_images_98007898_141696863160_1_original.jpeg Recommended Resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e553c9d941e364924cdb746/1588345673244-Q8EDVG0OHGR4IZKH0H88/publid+deliberation+initiative+logo.jpg Recommended Resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e553c9d941e364924cdb746/1592342145880-YI8YKIPLZSSTFVTBM3LB/SacredG.jpg Recommended Resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e553c9d941e364924cdb746/1592343390618-CNX2YLY7VN6X29FSXTCZ/difference.jpg Recommended Resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e553c9d941e364924cdb746/1588347218325-S32TI9IN4ENT8NNMZ5ML/Fierce+Conversations.jpg Recommended Resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e553c9d941e364924cdb746/1583953011864-27ONO6PFDFVBA5HEEK00/Untitled+design+%284%29.png Recommended Resources - Fierce Conversations A program to help transform everyday conversations at work and at home with effective ways to get your message across. In this book and program, which includes a workbook and The Seven Principles of Fierce Conversations, Scott teaches you how to: • Overcome barriers to meaningful communication • Expand and enrich relationships with colleagues, friends, and family • Increase clarity and improve understanding • Handle strong emotions—on both sides of the table • Connect with colleagues, customers and family at a deep level Interested leaders in EDOT will be offered an opportunity to be trained as Fierce leaders. Please contact Denise Treviño-Gomez dtrevino@epicenter.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e553c9d941e364924cdb746/1592343978154-HMM72NJRLUEMDW28OYQG/difference.jpg Recommended Resources - Run the course In a divided and fractured world, it can be hard to know where to begin with the issues that surround us. Difference is a 5 session course that explores what it means to follow Jesus in the face of conflict and see transformation through everyday encounters. This course is designed for both large and small, new and existing church-based groups. difference. is a part of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Reconciliation Ministry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e553c9d941e364924cdb746/1592344776077-J6YZRZYU3FRQN4I2DLYU/SacredG.jpg Recommended Resources - Sacred Ground This is a race dialogue series designed for these times. It is an attempt to be responsive to the profound challenges that currently exist in our society. It is focused on the challenges that swirl around issues of race and racism, as well as the difficult but respectful and transformative dialogue we need to have with each other about them. Contact Denise Treviño-Gomez dtrevino@epicenter.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e553c9d941e364924cdb746/1588349593332-PUKS9NZQMNMELW8WI179/courageous+conversation+logo.png Recommended Resources - Courageous Conversation COURAGEOUS CONVERSATION™ is the Pacific Education Group’s award-winning protocol for effectively engaging, sustaining and deepening interracial dialogue. Through our Framework for Systemic Racial Equity Transformation, PEG is dedicated to helping individuals and organizations address persistent racial disparities intentionally, explicitly, and comprehensively. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e553c9d941e364924cdb746/1592344200090-C0UKQDAU2V3V7NKLDEU5/civil_discourse_logo_finall.png Recommended Resources - Make Me an Instrument of Peace: A Guide to Civil Discourse The Episcopal Church’s Office of Government Relations and Department of Faith Formation, in partnership with ChurchNext, a ministry of Forward Movement, bring you “Make Me an Instrument of Peace: A Guide to Civil Discourse.” This interactive five-part online curriculum offers hope that by using the tool of civil discourse, we can find new ways to love our neighbor. Click “learn more” below to learn more about the Episcopal Church’s effort around civic engagement and discourse. The original written curriculum is still available below. Each week includes specific instructions for group or forum leaders, and interactive components including prayers, discussion questions, and activities aimed at utilizing group settings for entering into deeper reflection on the primary themes. Civil Discourse Curriculum (FULL) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e553c9d941e364924cdb746/1591381293946-2SD5IUK46LH7CWK5T3QP/Beloved_Community_Logo.png Recommended Resources - Becoming Beloved Community The Episcopal Church’s Becoming Beloved Community vision – presented by our Church’s key leaders in May 2017 – frames a path for Episcopalians to address racial injustice and grow as a community of reconcilers, justice-makers, and healers who share a passion for the dream of God. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e553c9d941e364924cdb746/1588350552889-3YMBREJ46O7IAWYQ576H/beyond+gated+politics+wide.jpg Recommended Resources - Beyond Gated Politics by Romand Coles Beyond Gated Politics argues that the survival of democracy depends on recognizing the failings of disengaged liberal democracy and experimenting with more radical modes of democratic theory and action. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e553c9d941e364924cdb746/1588349939895-UWK8V7SLFQ3AGODRNWVX/publid+deliberation+initiative+logo.jpg Recommended Resources - Baylor Public Deliberation Initiative “Deliberation involves the best parts of dialogue (conversational) and debate (argument) to offer an experience where participants can learn from one another by talking through different perspectives and approaches to local and global issues and working together to come up with community action steps.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e553c9d941e364924cdb746/1592345006273-3U0VSEBVQ2WHY3OXDTZ7/KI_PRIMARY.jpg Recommended Resources - Building Bridges Now The Building Bridges Now dialogue sessions are intended to be a cohesive dialogue program inviting participants to commit to recurring sessions covering topics such as Race and Children, Race and Privilege, Black Lives Matter, Race and Immigration, Stop and Frisk, Stand Your Ground, etc. Please contact Denise Treviño-Gomez dtrevino@epicenter.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e553c9d941e364924cdb746/1588349393907-5ZNIBUE0ENJL8SCBFVPF/https___cdn.evbuc.com_images_98007898_141696863160_1_original.jpeg Recommended Resources - Braver Angels Braver Angels is a citizens’ organization uniting red and blue Americans in a working alliance to depolarize America. In the fall, EDOT will work closely with Braver Angels to provide an on the ground training and experience for churches interested in exploring deep conversation and relationship. For more information please contact the Canon Joe Chambers jchambers@epicenter.org