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In an age of flaming rhetoric ... Harold Heie exemplifies a much better way. It is hard to imagine a better book for times like these. Best-selling evangelical historian Mark Noll Heie does not settle for bromides or platitudes. He insists on thoughtful, theological, informed discussions, and he points us, all of us, toward a better way. Award-winning journalist and scholar of American religion Randall Balmer Reforming American Politicsnot only provides important principles for Christians to use when engaging in political discussion and engagement, but it models those principles through the use of real discussions between Christians who disagree politically. Corwin E. Smidt, research fellow at the Henry Institute, Calvin College Harold Heie practices what he preaches--which is civil conversation, from a serious Christian theological perspective, amid a context of brutal division. He doesn't just theorize about this essential challenge--he creates contexts that model the way forward. This book is an impressive example of what Heie is about. I strongly recommend it--and the practices it embodies. The Rev. Dr. David P. Gushee, Christian ethicist and author of Changing Our Mind

"""In an age of flaming rhetoric ... Harold Heie exemplifies a much better way. It is hard to imagine a better book for times like these."" Best-selling evangelical historian Mark Noll ""Heie does not settle for bromides or platitudes. He insists on thoughtful, theological, informed discussions, and he points us, all of us, toward a better way."" Award-winning journalist and scholar of American religion Randall Balmer ""Reforming American Politicsnot only provides important principles for Christians to use when engaging in political discussion and engagement, but it models those principles through the use of real discussions between Christians who disagree politically."" Corwin E. Smidt, research fellow at the Henry Institute, Calvin College Harold Heie practices what he preaches--which is civil conversation, from a serious Christian theological perspective, amid a context of brutal division. He doesn't just theorize about this essential challenge--he creates contexts that model the way forward. This book is an impressive example of what Heie is about. I strongly recommend it--and the practices it embodies. The Rev. Dr. David P. Gushee, Christian ethicist and author of Changing Our Mind"

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"Harold Heie is a senior fellow at The Colossian Forum. He previously served as founding director of the Center for Christian Studies (now the Center for Faith and Inquiry) at Gordon College and as vice president for academic affairs at Messiah College and Northwestern College in Iowa, after teaching mathematics at Gordon College and The King's College. He holds a doctorate in mechanical and aerospace sciences from Princeton University and served as a trustee of the Center for Public Justice and as a senior fellow at the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU). Harold's website, www.respectfulconversation.net, is devoted to encouraging and modeling respectful conversations concerning contentious issues about which Christians have strong disagreements. The eCircle on ""Reforming Political Discourse"" that is the basis for this book is the fourth major eCircle he has hosted on his website, the first three of which resulted in books: Evangelicals on Public Policy Issues: Sustaining a Respectful Political Conversation (2014); A Future for American Evangelicalism: Commitment, Openness, and Conversation (2015); and Respectful LGBT Conversations: Seeking Truth, Giving Love, and Modeling Christian Unity (2018)."

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