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ECPA 2024 Book Award-Faith and Culture and Book of the Year 2023-Englewood Review of Books
What does it look like to love someone you disagree with? Fighting, hatred, dissension-these things seem common in the wider Christian community today. Politics, theology, and even personal preference create seemingly insurmountable rifts. It's hard not to see ourselves as "at war" with each other.
We're not doomed to be stuck here, though. There is a twofold path out of this destructive war, out of seeing our brothers and sisters as enemies-and into a spacious place of loving each other even as we disagree.
In Loving Disagreement, Kathy Khang and Matt Mikalatos bring unique insight into how the fruit of the Spirit informs our ability to engage in profound difference and conflict with love. As followers of Jesus are planted in the Holy Spirit, the Spirit grows and bears good things in our lives-and relationships and communities are changed.
- Each chapter features author conversations about the communal and cultural implications of the fruit of the Spirit.
- Book includes a glossary of social and cultural terms.
"I encourage everyone to pick up several copies of this book, hand them to your friends (and frenemies), and let the conversations begin." – José HUMPHREYS III, author of Seeing Jesus in East Harlem and coauthor of Ecosystems of Jubilee
What does it look like to love someone you disagree with? Fighting, hatred, dissension-these things seem common in the wider Christian community today. Politics, theology, and even personal preference create seemingly insurmountable rifts. It's hard not to see ourselves as "at war" with each other.
We're not doomed to be stuck here, though. There is a twofold path out of this destructive war, out of seeing our brothers and sisters as enemies-and into a spacious place of loving each other even as we disagree.
In Loving Disagreement, Kathy Khang and Matt Mikalatos bring unique insight into how the fruit of the Spirit informs our ability to engage in profound difference and conflict with love. As followers of Jesus are planted in the Holy Spirit, the Spirit grows and bears good things in our lives-and relationships and communities are changed.
- Each chapter features author conversations about the communal and cultural implications of the fruit of the Spirit.
- Book includes a glossary of social and cultural terms.
"I encourage everyone to pick up several copies of this book, hand them to your friends (and frenemies), and let the conversations begin." – José HUMPHREYS III, author of Seeing Jesus in East Harlem and coauthor of Ecosystems of Jubilee
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Reviews
"The beauty and brilliance of Loving Disagreement is not just the wisdom and thoughtfulness of its content but also the way in which Kathy Khang and Matt Mikalatos model how to have kind, God-honoring discourse that deepens their understanding and respect for one another. In a church and world in which divisiveness and defensiveness are the norm, Loving Disagreement provides welcome reassurance that it is possible this side of heaven to experience unity without sacrificing or abandoning our unique opinions, heritages, and convictions. I'm so grateful to Kathy and Matt for having created this gracious, honest, and unique resource, because this is a book we need now more than ever."
Helen Lee, speaker and coauthor of The Race-Wise Family
"I've spent the last few years wondering what it actually looks like for "us" (in the grand sense of the word) to live together. A lot of that wondering comes from a place of sadness and disillusionment, namely because of my experiences of online interactions. I find myself sincerely hopeful after reading Loving Disagreement. Matt and Kathy write from a place of sincere interest and lived experience. They actually like people. I love the way the book is creatively structured, and I love the clarity with which they present pieces of lived wisdom as well as questions and concerns they're still working with. In short, I finished this book feeling not only less alone but also reenergized to help build and make room for loving community."
Justin MCRoberts, author of Sacred Strides