Church Conflict

  • Church Conflict: You Can Manage It, Or It Will Manage You
    By Linda S. Thompson, Durward Bradshaw

    Conversational in tone yet buttressed by careful research and well-placed scripture, this book is perfect for both the average believer and the academic.

  • Church Conflict: The Hidden Systems Behind the Fights
    By Charles H. Cosgrove, Dennis D. Hatfield

    See Daniel L. Olson, “The Wellbeing of Individualsandthe Health ofthe Community,” in Norma Cook Everist,ed., The Difficult ButIndispensable Church(Minneapolis:Fortress Press, 2002),pp.33 34. Olson explores how the loss of primary ...

  • Church Conflict: From Contention to Collaboration
    By Norma Cook Everist

    Arthur Paul Boers, Never Call Them Jerks: Healthy Responses to Difficult Behavior (Bethesda, Md.: Alban, 1999), pp. 58-60, 66. Boers also quotes Edwin Friedman, Mansell Pattison, and Peter Steinke in pointing out that not only are ...

  • Church Conflict: The Hidden Systems Behind the Fights
    By Charles H. Cosgrove

    If church is like a family, it fights like one too! As in any family, conflict in the church family is natural and inevitable. But the way the church family handles its fights can make or break ministry.

  • Church Conflict: From Contention to Collaboration
    By Norma Cook Everist

    This book is designed to help the reader ask certain key questions about the nature and scope of the conflict they are experiencing and, based on the answers to those questions, move beyond conflict.