{"id":8355,"date":"2019-05-17T21:14:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T02:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8355"},"modified":"2019-05-17T21:14:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T02:14:54","slug":"stepping-into-controversy-invitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8355","title":{"rendered":"STEPPING INTO CONTROVERSY INVITATION"},"content":{"rendered":"
Here’s the official announcement from Hill House.\u00a0 And yes, the meals are free!<\/strong><\/div>\n
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2104 Nueces Street (Austin, Texas)<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Garage parking available across the street and parking can also be found on the street<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Simply RSVP to me here.<\/strong><\/b><\/div>\n
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Starting Wednesday, June 5<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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and running through Wednesday, July 17\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
from\u00a06-8<\/b><\/span>\u00a0pm\u00a0<\/b><\/span>we will be hosting a weekly<\/u> dinner and study at Hill House<\/div>\n
taught by Dave Moore.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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Students and non students alike are welcome to attend.\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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STEPPING INTO CONTROVERSY\u2026WITH COURAGE AND CHRIST-LIKE CHARACTER<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

IS IT POSSIBLE IN OUR DIVISIVE AND TURBULENT TIME?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Taught by <\/span>Dave Moore<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Imagine that you are at your favorite coffee shop.\u00a0\u00a0Everything about the place is great, except the tables are a bit too close to one another.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This, of course, makes it difficult to avoid eavesdropping.\u00a0\u00a0Your reading tends to zone you out from the conversations of others, but not on this day.\u00a0\u00a0To your utter amazement you listen in on a conversation between an ardent Trump supporter and one who gladly voted for Hillary Clinton.\u00a0\u00a0It is not the various arguments that are being mustered for one candidate over the other that intrigues you.\u00a0\u00a0Rather, it is the evident respect each person has for the other even while articulating their significant disagreements.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It is hard to go back to your reading for the day.\u00a0\u00a0You become preoccupied with why the kind of exchange you just heard is as rare as it is refreshing\u2026even in your local church.<\/span><\/p>\n

For seven weeks<\/b> we will discuss several areas that can hurt or help us as we discuss controversial subjects.\u00a0\u00a0A sampling of these include:<\/span><\/p>\n

*Taking honest inventory of our own failure to be prepared and\/or interact with grace<\/span><\/p>\n

*The need to slow down and pay more careful attention to the definition of words<\/span><\/p>\n

*Diagnosing how much of an echo chamber we live in<\/span><\/p>\n

*The need to read and listen to those who make us angry\u2026and to pay close attention to what our \u201copponents\u201d can teach us<\/span><\/p>\n

*Why the focus must be on our own challenges rather than being frustrated with those we disagree with<\/span><\/p>\n

We will also be looking various points raised in\u00a0How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds<\/i>\u00a0by Alan Jacobs.<\/b>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0Copies will be available.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s the official announcement from Hill House.\u00a0 And yes, the meals are free! 2104 Nueces Street (Austin, Texas) Garage parking available across the street and parking can also be found on the street Simply RSVP to me here. Starting Wednesday, June 5 and running through Wednesday, July 17\u00a0 from\u00a06-8\u00a0pm\u00a0we will be hosting a weekly dinner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,43,88,109,76,30,101,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character","category-christianity","category-culture","category-discernmentwisdom","category-personal-development","category-teaching","category-theology","category-thinking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8356,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8355\/revisions\/8356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}