Season 3 Theme - One Virtual Road Trip, to Answer One Big Question, told as One Continuous Narrative Arc
Season 3 Focus - To answer one primary question, "How do we effectively live as a collective church body in today's world in tension?"
Do you have trouble seeing other people's perspective? Are you able to talk in a civil and respectful manner with someone you vehemently disagree with? Do you have the capability to listen to dissenting opinions, consider them thoughtfully, and potentially even be shaped by them?
In a world that is stretching the boundaries of digital expansiveness, we are experiencing and inverse narrowing of relational connectedness. Our social circles are splintering into more finite and distinct groupings and our ability and desire to "walk in someone else's shoes" is seemingly becoming a lost art.
Enter John Inazu. In John's latest book 'Learning to Disagree', he offers thoughtful and practical solutions to our current cultural divisions. As a constitutional scholar, legal expert, and former litigator, John is well versed in understanding how to disagree well with others.
Come join the conversation as we talk with John about how he applies specific principles for effective civil discourse in his work as a law school professor and in his own personal life. We talk about the need for empathy, how to navigate hard political topics, the role of the church, and what balanced friendships look like.
Guest Information
John Inazu is the Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor of Law and Religion at Washington University in St. Louis.
His latest book is Learning to Disagree: The Surprising Path to Navigating Differences with Empathy and Respect (Zondervan, 2024).
Inazu is also the author of Liberty's Refuge: The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly (Yale University Press, 2012) and Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference (University of Chicago Press, 2016). He is co-editor (with Tim Keller) of Uncommon Ground: Living Faithfully in a World of Difference (Thomas Nelson, 2020).
Inazu is the founder of The Carver Project and the Legal Vocation Fellowship, a Senior Fellow with the Trinity Forum, and a Senior Fellow with Interfaith America, where he co-directs (with Eboo Patel) the Newbigin Fellows.