Difficult Conversations: Taking Risks, Acting with Integrity - Softcover

Day, Katie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566992397 ISBN 13: 9781566992398

Publisher: Alban Inst, 2001

Synopsis

"We don’t talk about controversial issues here!" That seems to be the unspoken rule in most faith communities. The unfortunate results of such no-talk rules are that congregations are noticeably absent from the public forum and members of faith communities fail to develop "social capital." We do not form significant connections with one another. In this book, author Katie Day invites us to begin engaging in difficult conversations, a process she hopes will become habitforming, a new way of being communities of faith.

"We don’t talk about controversial issues here!" That seems to be the unspoken rule in most faith communities. The unfortunate results of such no-talk rules are that congregations are noticeably absent from the public forum and members of faith communities fail to develop "social capital." We do not form significant connections with one another. In this book, author Katie Day invites us to begin engaging in difficult conversations, a process she hopes will become habitforming, a new way of being communities of faith.

About this title

About the Author:

The Rev. Katie Day is associate professor of church and society at Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, where she also serves as director of the Urban Ministry Program. She is an ordained Presbyterian pastor and holds a Ph.D. in urban sociology from Temple University.

Review:

"Difficult Conversations is a gift to congregations that are serious about living the gospel." -- Rather Adrian Rooney, St. Vincent's Catholic Church, Philadelphia, PA

"Katie Day challenges us to risk entering ...difficult conversations, knowing that in them we will be transformed." -- Nancy Ammerman, Hartford Seminary

About this edition

• Publisher: Alban Inst
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1566992397
• ISBN 13: 9781566992398
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96