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Take a Position, Not a Side: Towards a Healthier Civic Discourse

By Filings on Tue, 10/03/23
Society & Culture
Public Discourse
Debate
Tribalism
Intellectual Laziness
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“Sides are intellectually easy and emotionally satisfying. Positions are intellectually challenging and emotionally complex. Once you know which side you’re on—in the culture war, or the political war—you can let your friends, or your podcasts, do your thinking for you.” - Persuasion

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Topics: Lifeway Research, Public Discourse
  • LifeWay research: evangelicals' views on civility and respect in public discourse
  • How to Win Theological Controversy: Lessons from the Pharisees
  • Lincoln on Reviving Truth in Public Discourse
  • “We have allowed the secular political discourse to renew our minds so that we can only see liberal versus conservative, control versus freedom.”
  • "Without maintaining at least some cultural norms, all the formal law in the world can’t save a polity from becoming a nasty, poor, brutish dystopia."

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