NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 2024—Zondervan Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Christian Publishing, is pleased to announce that Learning to Disagree: The Surprising Path to Navigating Differences with Empathy and Respect by John Inazu (Zondervan, April 2024) has been selected as a June Pick for PBS Books.
PBS Books is, in their own words, “a multi-platform initiative celebrating the love of reading” and is “dedicated to connecting books with audiences by engaging them in unique experiences to spark their curiosity and encourage a life-long love of reading and learning. Through social and digital engagement and live coverage of important literary events across the country, PBS Books celebrates books and writers and works to foster a passion for reading among public media viewers and listeners.”
Webster Younce, vice president and publisher of Zondervan Books, remarked, “It is difficult to imagine a more timely and necessary book than Learning to Disagree. In it, John offers readers a surprising, paradigm-shifting approach to having productive conversations across deep differences, while staying true to one’s own convictions. We are thrilled that PBS is highlighting John’s work as a resource for navigating a culture that is often characterized by destructive disagreement.”
Learning to Disagree spans a range of challenging issues—including critical race theory, sexual assault, campus protests, and clashes over religious freedom—and helps readers engage honestly and empathetically with people whose viewpoints they find strange, wrong, or even dangerous.
Sharing memorable stories and drawing on the practices that legal training imparts—seeing the complexity in every issue and inhabiting the mindset of an opposing point of view—John helps readers handle daily encounters and lifelong relationships with those who see life very differently than they do.
Readers will be equipped to understand what holds them back from healthy disagreement; learn specific strategies for dialoguing clearly and authentically; move from stuck, broken disagreements to mature and healthy disagreements; and cultivate empathy as a core skill for their personal lives and society as a whole.
Learning to Disagree offers a unique, often-humorous, thought-provoking, and ultimately life-changing exploration of the best way to disagree.
For more information or for media inquiries, please contact Rebecca Schriner at rebecca.schriner@harpercollins.com.
John Inazu is the Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor of Law and Religion at Washington University in St. Louis. He teaches criminal law, law and religion, and various First Amendment courses. He writes and speaks frequently about pluralism, assembly, free speech, religious freedom, and other issues. John has written three books and published opinion pieces in the Washington Post, Atlantic, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, USA Today, Newsweek, and CNN. He is also the founder of the Carver Project and the Legal Vocation Fellowship and is a senior fellow with Interfaith America and the Trinity Forum.
Zondervan is a HarperCollins company and part of HarperCollins Christian Publishing. Zondervan is a world leading publisher and provider of Christian communications. The company’s products are sold worldwide and translated into nearly 200 languages. Zondervan offices are located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. For additional information, please visit zondervan.com.
Contact: Rebecca Schriner, Publicity Manager for Zondervan Books, HarperCollins Christian Publishing, Rebecca.Schriner@HarperCollins.com
