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From Alternative to Essential: Leading in the New ADR Landscape
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) has moved from the periphery of legal practice to its center. What was once viewed primarily as an alternative to litigation is now embedded in how organizations plan for and resolve disputes. Across industries, ADR has become a routine component of dispute strategy. Counsel are incorporating it into contracts, early case assessments and broader risk management frameworks. That shift reflects a fundamental change in how companies approach conflict.
From Alternative to Essential: Leading in the New ADR Landscape
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) has moved from the periphery of legal practice to its center. What was once viewed primarily as an alternative to litigation is now embedded in how organizations plan for and resolve disputes. Across industries, ADR has become a routine component of dispute strategy. Counsel are incorporating it into contracts, early case assessments and broader risk management frameworks. That shift reflects a fundamental change in how companies approach conflict.
Nate Brooks, Author at VideoGamer
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Reflecting on Five Years of Change: Technology, Innovation and the Future of ADR at JAMS
Five years ago, the world faced an unprecedented challenge as the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped industries, economies and daily life. For the legal and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) sectors, the pandemic accelerated a transformation that might have otherwise taken decades. Courts, legal professionals and ADR providers were forced to adapt rapidly, redefining how justice was delivered in a remote world.
When the Bible’s Metaphors Are Scary
The Scriptures brim with all kinds of metaphors, similes, and word pictures to describe God and His work. God has designed us to resonate with imaginative ways of describing reality. We feel God’s unshakable strength as He compares Himself to immovable rock. We feel the deep guttural rumble of God’s power as He calls Himself a lion. We feel His tenderness when He comforts us with rod and staff.
Promise and Exploitation: Marital Abuse in the Genesis Narrative
The sentence “marital abuse is anti-gospel” isn’t particularly controversial. God points to marriage as the lived-out picture of Christ’s love for the people he’s redeemed (Eph. 5:22–33). A spouse exploiting the one he or she has promised to love and to cherish paints a diffrent picture than the one marriage is meant to display. But the anti-gospel nature of marital abuse is multilayered, stretching beyond the obvious.
What about the Abused Spouse’s Sin?
Certain points of argument seem to be quite evergreen within the church. Does God choose us, or do we choose Him? How is the church’s government supposed to be structured? What’s going to happen at the end of all things? Some of these conversations are certainly more important than others. Another question that comes to the surface time and again is of significant importance. Is all sin the same before the Lord?
Holistic Counseling for Fired Pastors
Editor’s Note: Our January 2024 mini-series on the BCC Grace and Truth blog addresses the topic of embodiment. In this final article, Nate Brooks provides an example of approaching a particular counseling case in view of the whole person. In other contributions to the series, Jeemin Moon considers our experience of suffering as embodied beings in light of biblical anthropology, and Steve Midgley presents a metaphor of music for understanding the concept of embodiment.
What Did David Powlison Teach about Scripture and Psychology?
Editor’s Note: This week’s mini-series on the Grace and Truth blog addresses the history of the biblical counseling movement. In this final article, Nate Brooks discusses David Powlison’s writings on the relationship between divine revelation and secular psychology.
When Good Doctrine Enables Abuse
A few months ago, I was enjoying lunch at a conference when one of the participants (a Presbyterian) turned to me (a Baptist) and said, “Our Presbyterian system of church government makes abuse almost impossible.” This was followed by the rationale that because there is a governing body (the presbytery) that exercises oversight, abusive pastors will be identified and corrected or brought to justice, and they can’t simply skip on to the next church.
When Your Spouse Suffers from Chronic Pain or Illness, Part Two
This article is the second of a two-part series about being married to someone who suffers from chronic pain or illness. Part One highlighted the significant stress and difficulty that this form of suffering brings into a marriage, with 75% of marriages ending in divorce. This statistic should alarm us but not terrify us, as the Lord helps strengthen those who care for their suffering spouses.
When Your Spouse Suffers from Chronic Pain or Illness, Part One
Many forms of suffering are quite adept at catching people’s attention. The twisted metallic crunch of cars colliding, the sheer devastation of neighborhoods pummeled off the map by spiraling winds, the shock of a spectacular sin that can no longer be hidden–all capture people’s attention and, most often, their help. But not all forms of suffering are so spectacular enough to warrant recurring news articles. Some exist only in quiet whispers, unseen by most harried passers-by.
The Bible Keeps Record of Trauma. But Is It Trauma Informed?
People used to avoid discussing their trauma, eager not to reopen old wounds or expose their vulnerabilities. Not so anymore. Survivors recount horrific experiences and bring up trauma language in everyday conversations—even with strangers on Twitter. This shift in how we talk about the painful things we’ve been through may be uncomfortable for some, especially those not used to considering the pervasive nature of trauma.
You Have Heard of the Complexity of Job
The book of Job starts out like a crisp thriller. There’s an argument between God and His Adversary, followed by the instantaneous plunge of the main character from the pinnacle of prosperity into a dystopian nightmare. From the ashes, he affirms his loyalty to God, and his circle of close friends comes from near and far to…well…make bloviating speeches at him across the next twenty-odd chapters. So much for the Job-as-thriller concept.
Emotional Abuse Harms the Body Too
Editor’s Note: This two-week mini-series on the Grace and Truth Blog addresses the issue of emotional abuse. In our third article, Nate Brooks and Ann Maree Goudzwaard explore the physical impact of emotional abuse.
Emotional Abuse Is the Abuse of the Person
Editor’s Note: This two-week mini-series on the Grace and Truth Blog addresses the issue of emotional abuse. In this second article, Nate Brooks and Ann Maree Goudzwaard explain that emotional abuse is the abuse of the person.
Understanding the DSM
Editor’s Note: This week’s mini-series on the Grace and Truth Blog focuses on understanding the DSM and its categories from a biblical worldview. In our first article, Nate Brooks provides an overview of the purpose, usefulness, and limitations of the DSM.
Book Review of Gwen Tells Tales: When It’s Hard to Tell the Truth by Ed Welch
The publication of another title in the Good News for Little Hearts series is always an occasion for rejoicing in the Brooks household. My six and 4-year-old sons love these stories, and my wife and I love having heart-focused tales to draw from as we all live life together. If you’re unfamiliar with this series, each title follows an animal family in their adventures in the town of Mulberry Meadow.
Book Review of Help! I’ve Been Diagnosed with a Mental Disorder by Christine Chappell
Some books take courage to write. I suppose every author has a certain degree of courage as they set ideas in stone and allow others to evaluate and critique them. But some topics are more fraught with confusion and trouble than others. Christine Chappell’s Help! I’ve Been Diagnosed with a Mental Disorder addresses a topic that is inescapably personal.
Faith Is a Habit
The following is an uncorrected transcript generated by a transcription service. Before quoting in print, please check the corresponding audio for accuracy. Collin Hansen: What is faith? Is it a feeling? Is it hope against hope? Belief without evidence? Jen Michel says, faith is a habit. It’s not against evidence, but careful consideration of evidence. It’s trust in the story that makes sense of the world. It’s curiosity. It’s where the habits of humility take us. Try practicing your way into faith.
Godly Habits Can Get Us Back on Track
Remember when people were excited about the end of 2020? Now, at the end of 2021, such excitement seems naive. The pandemic lingers. Polarization remains high. People remain tired. Many churches are still struggling to regain their footing. Reports suggest many pastors are ready to resign. Nobody’s enjoying the disruption to our long-term plans, but we can’t afford to miss the opportunity we face as the pandemic drags on.
‘What God Has to Say about Our Bodies,’ ‘Embodied,’ ‘Wonderfully Made’
My body has been a gift and a torment to me. Some of my earliest boyhood memories are of throwing stones from the shore of Lake Superior far into the incoming waves. I had so much joy in the slingshot that God had given me for a left arm. My body also produces stones, kidney stones, and gallstones. These have caused excruciating pain, not to mention costly medical interventions. Our bodies are both gift and gall. They aid and ail us in ways that are deeply moral.
How an Unlikely Church Is Reaching Refugees
When Guy-Fleury Yedidiah landed at Dulles Airport, he was supposed to tell the customs officials he was on vacation. But the 20-year-old was scared to death—in reality, he was fleeing the Burundian government. Over the past several years, they had killed his grandma and shot at him because of his father’s work as a journalist. His family’s plan was for Yedidiah to escape into the United States on a tourist visa, then board a flight to his aunt and uncle in Canada.
What Was Martin Luther’s Breakthrough?
On October 31 we will celebrate the 504th anniversary of the day Martin Luther made his 95 theses public. But what exactly was Luther’s breakthrough? What realization did he come to that set the Western world on a course that would break the stranglehold of Roman Catholic authorities, produce Bibles in languages people could read, raise literacy rates across Europe, and birth thousands of new Christian denominations?
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Why Won’t My Feelings of Church Hurt Go Away?
Editor’s Note: This week’s mini-series on the Grace and Truth Blog addresses the topic of church hurt. In today’s article, Nate Brooks discusses several key themes to stress with those whose pain isn’t going away.
How a Husband Isn’t Like Christ
A few weeks ago, I started reading a favorite book from childhood to my 5- and 3-year-old sons. Days on the Farm with Annette and Samuel is their first chapter book, and each evening my oldest son patiently waits for me to finish a section so he can study the simple line drawing that accompanies each story.
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Book Review of Table for Two by David and Krista Dunham
What does the Bible have to do with eating disorders? While not quite as enduring as Tertullian’s famous “What hath Jerusalem to do with Athens?” query, this kind of question highlights a legitimate discussion about biblical counseling. Exactly how effective is biblical counseling at helping individuals with serious, enduring, and physically dangerous troubles?
Junior Season Highlights Co’22
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Should Christians Be Skeptical About Counseling?
The following is an uncorrected transcript generated by a transcription service. Before quoting in print, please check the corresponding audio for accuracy. Nate Brooks: Hi, you’re listening to TGC Q&A, a podcast from The Gospel Coalition. And this is the biblical counseling series, featuring hopeful answers to your questions on navigating fear, anxiety, ministry, and marriage and everything in between.
Does Secular Psychology Affect How We Talk About Change?
A couple of months ago, Jimmy Carter penned a helpful article here at the BCC on how biblical counselors have interacted with the role of habits in sanctification. To summarize his argument, Carter demonstrated how early biblical counseling heavily emphasized dehabituation and rehabituation as a significant or primary method of sanctification. This emphasis was eventually eclipsed by a stronger focus on idolatry of the heart.
God’s Feelings and Mine: Divine Impassibility and Anger in Counseling
One challenge of being a biblical counselor is that my job brings me into contact almost daily with things that make me angry. Cruel husbands make me angry. Unrepentant, self-righteous voyeurism makes me angry. Seeing harm done to children makes me angry. And, as a biblical counselor, I often deal with individuals who are angry. While often they are consumed with sinful anger, other times the people I meet with are angry about legitimate matters: being lied to, betrayed, assaulted, or rejected.
Guest editorial: Keep North Summit kids in the game by supporting Proposition 6
Nate Brooks North Summit Recreation director On Nov. 5, the residents of North Summit Recreation Special Service District will decide the fate of youth recreational sports in the North Summit area. Proposition 6 would provide an ongoing funding source for North Summit Rec so it can continue to offer fun, healthy, community-driven recreational youth sports programs. If Proposition 6 fails, these programs will cease to exist beginning in 2021.
A Review of “Contentment” by Megan Hill
Good devotionals are hard to come by. Most of the time devotional type literature tends to be fluffy, lacking expositional depth and meaningful doctrine. The 31 Day Devotionals for Life series, however, is robust and deeply theological. Case in point is Megan Hill’s volume on Contentment.
8 Marks of a Sluggard
Over the past several years, I’ve discovered that regularly reading through Proverbs is an immediately useful practice. For one thing, I am brought face-to-face with the sluggard. As I read and linger over passages that speak of the lazy man, my own heart is exposed, and I am convicted of my tendency toward idleness and sloth. Go to the ant, O sluggard; Consider her ways, and be wise. (Prov.
Anxiety’s False Interpretations (Part 3): False Extremes
Anxiety is often related to our interpretation of events. We saw last week how anxiety often tempts us to focus on the worst possible outcome in any given situation (Catastrophizing). We can become so consumed by a fear that we are unable to see other possible outcomes. In conduction with the Catastrophizing interpretation, we may also be prone to the interpretive error of False Extremes. False Extremes sees only two potential options in any given situation, the ideal or the worst fear.
7 Tests of Righteous Anger (Part 7): Right Charge
It was like he was just looking for an excuse to yell. It didn’t take much to set him off and my simple question was the spark that light the powder keg. Tevan’s anger was always primed, charged and ready to be used. He was like the Incredible Hulk, he was always angry inside. Godly anger is not charged and looking for any excuse to unload. Likewise, righteous anger is not primed. God, Himself, is described as one who is “slow to anger” (Ex. 34:6; Ps. 103:8; Joel 2:13).
What Forgiveness Is (Part 2)
“If he repents…” Those three words make a huge difference to our understanding of the horizontal dimension of forgiveness. The first word makes it a conditional clause. The second word puts the onus on the offending party. The third word spells out the terms of the condition: repentance, a turning away from sin. These three factors can help us understand the nature of forgiveness at the horizontal level. Last week I explained that the Bible speaks of forgiveness from two different vantage points.
Grieving the Spirit of God in Your Marital Communication
“Is the Holy Spirit pleased with the way you speak to your spouse?” It was strange question for Rick and Shelley. I could tell it was strange because they stared at me blankly. We would all probably have a similar reaction if we asked that question of our own marital conversations; we do not naturally think about God when we are fighting with our spouse. The Bible teaches us, however, that the way we communicate can either please or “grieve” the Holy Spirit.
A Theology of Weakness
Weakness is exceedingly difficult to admit. American Christians in particular like to be thought of as competent, strong, and independent. But the reality, of course, is that we are weak. We are extremely weak. While our culture has an aversion to weakness and views it as a threat, the Bible has a different perspective on this characteristic. The Bible teaches us that weakness is an opportunity for God’s glory to work through us.
Changing What Is Out of Reach: The Centrality of the Affections in Transformation
“I know what’s right, but I just can’t seem to do it.” How many times have you heard these words in counseling? Or how often is this a reality in our own lives as we struggle to live out truths we’ve explained countless times to others? Struggling to do the right thing when you know what is right is as common to humanity as a beating heart. How we counsel is inseparably bound up with our anthropology. This is one of the reasons why good counseling is always sourced out of good theology.
The Dark Side of Biblical Politics
Within Christian circles, a lively debate has arisen over the last few years: How should we approach the public square? Do evangelicals have a political philosophy? Two basic positions emerged in 2016. Putting it simplistically, some evangelicals argued we should preserve American culture so the church can flourish; others argued we should preserve the church’s moral witness so the culture would see the church’s otherworldly nature.
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