Mending The Fracturing Church: How to Navigate Conflict and Build Trust for Thriving Communities

To-Be-Released - Fall 2025

Hale is currently writing Mending the Fracturing Church: How to Navigate Conflict and Build Trust for Thriving Communities. An interactive book for local churches, Mending the Fracturing Church gives churches a new set of tools to understand and traverse escalating polarization, rapid cultural changes, and departing disenfranchised members. The book combines recent social and cognitive psychology developments, examining them through a theological lens, and step-by-step creative group design exercises to provide churches with a roadmap for navigating organizational challenges.