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Join In Cross-Campus Online Forums in November, 2019 - National Week of Conversation

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Registration is now available for the student-focused November 2019 National Week of Conversation Common Ground for Action (CGA) forum series. This idea is the brainchild of faculty from the National Issues Forums (NIF) network who wanted their undergrads to have a chance to deliberate with students from other universities so they could hear different voices. We’ve done this the past two years and each year the pool of students and universities gets larger and more diverse. I’m hoping more faculty and students will join us.

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Report on NIF Forum Activity: Climate Choices

When people gather with friends, neighbors, and fellow community members to deliberate on shared problems, they often report that they are exposed to ideas and perspectives they hadn’t previously entertained. They also often say that they leave the deliberative forums, not with completely changed minds, but “thinking differently” nonetheless. 

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Read the Blog Post by Rev. Dr. Leah D. Schade - "Applying the Dialogical Lens to the Parable of the Rich Fool"

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In a July 31, 2019 blog post titled Applying the Dialogical Lens to the Parable of the Rich Fool, the Rev. Dr. Leah D. Schade writes:

In a survey of 1200 mainline Protestant preachers I conducted two years ago, I asked what social issues they were willing to address in their sermons. 

I listed 38 topics for them to choose from, and the results turned up an interesting paradox.

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