Guest Column: People need to turn down the temperature in tense times
Stephen Cook
Stephen Cook is Senior Pastor of Second Baptist Church and immediate past chair of MIFA’s Board of Directors.
“Few of us probably think of ourselves as contributors to conflict. ... As Amanda Ripley points out in her book ‘High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out,’ we think of ourselves as right.”
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