I reject the notion that the solution to any communal tension is to pretend it doesn’t exist by not talking about it. As a pastor I have been explicitly discouraged on occasion from speaking about certain topics in the church because the topic itself–not simply the way or time in which... www.nathanrhale.com

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“Yet topics in themselves do not have the power to divide. Only our reactions and responses to them do.”

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@nathanrhale you are so right there, my friend. I feel like in today’s society there is way too much of that very thing going on. No one wants to talk about anything, and believe me. I don’t think it’s their fault. I think it’s their upbringing if anything.