Religion & Spirituality
Why do good and reasonable people disagree so strongly on important (and not-so-important) issues? And why is it so difficult for us to embrace new ideas that might not only be helpful, but are also likely to be true? How might it help to imagine that people operate more like elephants than computers? Peter Neumann and Stephen Barkley discuss why pastors and leaders should probably become "elephant whisperers," drawing on insights gleaned from Jonathan Haidt's book, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (with some assistance from Tom Nichol's, The Death of Expertise).