Soundings Seminar | "Faithfully Navigating Fracturing in the Church"

It has been well documented that congregations and Christian communities across the country are fracturing and splintering at a staggering rate, over a variety of issues.  How might followers of Jesus respond faithfully to this still-unfolding crisis?

As part of Coracle's "Doubt, Deconstruction & Redemption" Series, we are eager to wrestle together with this question alongside professors Vincent Bacote (Wheaton College) and John Inazu (Washington University in St. Louis).  They will be joining Rev. Bill Haley (Coracle Executive Director) to discuss the insights flowing from a 2021 Mere Orthodoxy article, "The Six-Way Fracturing of Evangelicalism" by Michael Graham and Skyler Flowers, which sought to map the divisions budding up in our churches.  We hope you will consider reading that article and then joining us with your questions, as there will be time** for Question & Response with our panelists.

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**If you would like more time to process this topic with other Christians, please join us on Tuesday, June 28 from 5:30-6:30 PM (ET) for an informal "Questions that Matter" conversation facilitated by Rev. Bill Haley.  We will be reflecting on the ideas raised in this Soundings Seminar as well as a handful of other articles addressing this issue.  Register Here

About Our Conversation Partners

Vincent Bacote is a Professor of Theology and Director of the Center for Applied Christian Ethics at Wheaton College. He believes that doctrine is central to the life of the church. He is the author of The Political Disciple: A Theology of Public Life and The Spirit in Public Theology: Appropriating the Legacy of Abraham Kuyper. Dr. Bacote has contributed to books including Black Scholars in White Space: New Vistas in African American Studies from the Christian Academy; On Kuyper; Aliens in the Promised Land: Why Minority Leadership Is Overlooked in White Christian Churches and Institutions; Keep Your Head Up; and Prophetic Evangelicals. He is a regular columnist for Comment and has also had articles appear in magazines such as Books and Culture, Christianity Today, Think Christian and re:generation quarterly and journals such as Christian Scholars Review, Urban Mission and the Journal for Christian Theological Research.

John Inazu is the Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor of Law and Religion at Washington University in St. Louis. His scholarly focus is the First Amendment freedoms of speech, assembly, and religion. Inazu is the author of Liberty’s Refuge: The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly (Yale University Press, 2012) and Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference (University of Chicago Press, 2016), and co-editor (with Tim Keller) of Uncommon Ground: Living Faithfully in a World of Difference (Thomas Nelson, 2020).