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Charles Pillsbury, who goes by Charlie, is an attorney, mediator and co-director of the Center on Dispute Resolution at Quinnipiac University School of Law. He was a founding Board member of the National Association for Community Mediation (NAFCM), and a founding member of Mediators Beyond Borders International. He is a graduate of Boston University School of Law and Yale University and is a member of Shalom United Church of Christ in New Haven, CT. He has authored several “Sacred Stories” about dispute resolution in the Bible.
Jessica L. Anschutz is the Assistant Director of the Lewis Center and co-editor of Leading Ideas. She teaches in the Doctor of Ministry program at Wesley Theological Seminary and is an elder in the New York Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. Jessica participated in the Lewis Fellows program, the Lewis Center's leadership development program for young clergy. She is also the co-editor with Doug Powe of Healing Fractured Communities (Palmetto, 2024).
How can church leaders address conflicts? Jessica Anschutz of the Lewis Center staff speaks with attorney and mediator, Charlie Pillsbury, about mediating conflicts in congregations.…
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