A humorous take on a real issue

Alex Beam writes in today's Boston Globe about attending a course on how to deal with difficult people. Blackfriars actually offers a course with a similar title, but a different emphasis. The one Alex talks about is more about tact and empathizing with the other person's personality style. Ours is much more about purposeful communication and why what you think you are saying isn't what the other person hears. Regardless, Blackfriars wishes more people would take courses like these. With the deep divisions in politics and dialog nowadays, if we don't do something soon, we might be assaulted by the likes of Unitarian Jihad.