How to Disagree Well

July 14th, 2025 | 5 min read

About a week ago I had the pleasure of spending time with a couple thousand teaching elders and ruling elders from the Presbyterian Church in America at our annual General Assembly. For about 5 days, the city of Chattanooga was flooded with a sea of blazers and khaki pants, filling coffee shop upon sandwich shop upon bar in the downtown metro area.

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Derek Rishmawy

Derek Rishmawy (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is the RUF campus minister at the University of California-Irvine. He contributes to Mere Orthodoxy, Christianity Today, and The Gospel Coalition, and writes at his own blog, Reformedish. He also co-hosts Mere Fidelity and is host of the “What Christians Believe’ Podcast at byFaith. You can follow him on Twitter @dzrishmawy.

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How to Disagree Well

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