Learning to listen, ready to talk: a pilgrimage toward peacemaking

Introduction: An invitation to respectful conversation

Pt. I. Faithful learning

1. Mom, Pop, and the girls

2. Jesus and me

3. Finding something you love to do

4. Learning after schooling

5. Needing to know

6. Seeds for my emerging Christian ethic

7. Becoming who I am

8. God did not make me a stone

9. An expanded vision

10. Learning leadership in the trenches

11. On being evangelical

12. Knowing enough about the Bible to live

13. Being a teacher and scholar

14. Fired

15. Does a bear relieve himself in the woods

16. Respectful conversations

17. Jesus and me again

Pt. II. On what basis can we talk if we disagree?

18. Evaluating competing claims to knowledge

19. Commitment and openness in conversation

Pt. III. Can we talk about justice and peace?

20. Should religious people do politics? If so, with what agenda?

21. Tragedy, just war, and peacemaking

Pt. IV. Improving Christian higher education

22. Christian scholarship

23. Recommendations for Christian higher education.