Persuasion
Why Winning Doesn’t Make You Right: Five Conflict Styles
Which conflict style fits each dispute? All five are needed; choose wisely to prevent resentment.
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October 20, 2025
Which conflict style fits each dispute? All five are needed; choose wisely to prevent resentment.
What defines fatherhood? Fathers preside with love, provide for needs, and protect their families faithfully.
What is conflict? Conflict is not the same as contention. It is a neutral force that, when handled wisely, fosters growth and peace.
What is the real ecological crisis? Family and fertility decline threaten human and societal sustainability.
Misguided empathy can harm. True understanding demands not just listening but deep knowledge and open hearts.
What truly defines education? Is it merely a tool for power, or is there a deeper pursuit of truth, wisdom, beauty, and virtue? Academia faces an ongoing battle for its soul.
Higher education faces a crisis of purpose, with its moral and intellectual foundations eroded by modernism and postmodernism.
Early Americans saw intelligence and love in tension. But Latter-day Saint doctrine understood God’s nature differently.
As long as we love ourselves more, so the popular precept goes, our happiness will also grow. Is that really true? Not if our self-love disregards the reality of truth and our need to love that most.
Increasingly, older and senior members of our communities are seen as backward and not worth considering. That’s a mistake. General Conference will provide an opportunity to listen to the hard-earned wisdom of age that we should seek for.
Lots of people read lots of things these days. But it’s a very different kind of reading than before. Here’s why that should worry us.
