Graceful Disagreement
"In public discourse, the challenge is not to stifle robust debate, but rather to make sure that it is real debate. The first obligation for Christians is to listen carefully to opponents and if they are not willing to do so, then Christians should simply be silent. To engage in a war of words is to encourage in a symbolic voiolence that is fundamentally at odds with the gospel. - James Davison Hunter "To Change the World" (emphasis added) This is something that I have thought about quite a bit over the past few months. As someone that keeps up a blog and loves posting quotes and questions, I read this and was challenged as it made me ask myself the question, "Why do I post what I post?" Most of what I post are things that have ministered to or exhorted me and so I like to pass them along. Other times they are things that I have worked and thought through and I am trying to help others to do the same. But alas, there are other times when I have used quotes,