This hopeful book reflects on the healthy and holy aspects of conflict in Scripture, in early church history, and in the new Christian Church. Sam Portara reveals that we must gain a new understanding of conflict in order to see it not as a problem to be solved, but as an opportunity to be seized.
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Conflict has the potential for good...'can turn us toward one another and bring us face to face with God.' -- Episcopal Life, July/August 1997
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SAM PORTARO is the Episcopal Chaplain to the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including Brightest and Best, Daysprings, and Crossing the Jordan.
SAM PORTARO is the Episcopal Chaplain to the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including Brightest and Best, Daysprings, and Crossing the Jordan. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
SAM PORTARO is the Episcopal Chaplain to the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including Brightest and Best, Daysprings, and Crossing the Jordan. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Sam Portaro is a priest of the Episcopal Church. A graduate of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, he was Episcopal Chaplain to the College of William & Mary and Associate to the Rector of Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, Virginia, from 1976 until 1982.
As Episcopal Chaplain to The University of Chicago and Director of Brent House from 1982 to 2004, he oversaw the restoration and modernization of this historic property and a revitalization of its program as a vibrant center on its own campus and a national resource for student and young adult ministry.
Currently serving on a faculty team of The CREDO Institute, he also conducts Quiet Days, retreats and has served as a consultant and preacher nationwide and in England, and has filled interim posts on the faculties of both Seabury Western Theological Seminary and The University of Chicago Divinity School. He is a Trustee of the Pullman Educational Foundation in Chicago.
As Episcopal Chaplain to The University of Chicago and Director of Brent House from 1982 to 2004, he oversaw the restoration and modernization of this historic property and a revitalization of its program as a vibrant center on its own campus and a national resource for student and young adult ministry.
Currently serving on a faculty team of The CREDO Institute, he also conducts Quiet Days, retreats and has served as a consultant and preacher nationwide and in England, and has filled interim posts on the faculties of both Seabury Western Theological Seminary and The University of Chicago Divinity School. He is a Trustee of the Pullman Educational Foundation in Chicago.
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