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Orchestrate the Conflict: How to Creatively Engage Conflict to Achieve Leadership Goals

This book chapter offers a variety of strategies for congregations to address conflict...

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Avoiding All-Out Church War

This pack of eight articles educates readers about conflict and how to mitigate it in a...

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Discover Your Conflict Management Style

This resource will help the reader identify their conflict management tendencies before...

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Staying with Conflict: A Strategic Approach to Ongoing Disputes

This book addresses the unique challenges of enduring conflict and equips congregational...

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Abortions, Guns and Trump: A Church Group Tries to Navigate America's Divisions

This article outlines how one congregation deals with political polarization among its...

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Four Guiding Principles for Managing a Polarized Congregation

This article equips leaders to navigate conflict in the congregation.

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Stilling the Storm: Worship and Congregational Leadership in Difficult Times

This resource offers guidance for worship planners in congregations going through difficulty...

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Avoiding Splits – Fighting Fair in Church: Guidelines for an Effective Church...

This article addresses the problem of church conflict and the lack of training for pastors to...

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Susan Nienaber Consulting, LLC

This organization provides consulting for congregations in conflict, needing structural...

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Insights Into: Congregational Conflict

Part of a series produced by Faith Communities Today, this article analyzes the results of two...

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