Agree To Disagree: Can Christians Still Do That?

Host Andrew Urquhart talks with Myk Habets, a lecturer at Laidlaw College, about why society - and the Church - has become so polarised that disagreement now feels like rejection rather than debate. Myk traces this to forces like colonisation's homogenising pressures and "cancel culture," where disagreeing with someone's belief is treated as rejecting their identity altogether.

Myk argues Christians should hold firmly to core convictions (Jesus is Lord) while leaving plenty of room for genuine disagreement on secondary issues, modelling Christ-like virtues such as respect and peacemaking rather than treating opponents as enemies. Using the botched US execution of Christopher Pike as a case study, he and Andrew explore how Christians can disagree on capital punishment itself while still agreeing on the need for human dignity and justice within the prison system ([www.laidlaw.ac.nz](https://www.laidlaw.ac.nz)).

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