Posts by Timothy Muehlhoff

Timothy Muehlhoff

Tim Muehlhoff (Ph.D.) is the Senior Director of Biola’s Winsome Conviction Academy that seeks to reintroduce compassion and civility into our disagreements. He is the co-host of the Winsome Conviction Podcast where people with differing viewpoints are brought on for engaging dialogue. Tim has written extensively in the area of cultural engagement and conflict including I Beg to Differ, Winsome Persuasion, Winsome Conviction, and his newest book (co-written with Sean McDowell) is End the Stalemate: Move Past Cancel Culture to Meaningful Conversations.

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Navigating Minefield Conversations
with Tim Muehlhoff
Sean McDowell, Timothy Muehlhoff — June 18, 2024
Why do conversations today so often descend into unhealthy arguments and cancellation? Is it possible to have meaningful, positive conversations on...
Winsome Conviction
Episode 98: Searching For A Better Way: Wisdom, Buddhism & Christianity
Rick Langer, Susan Lim, Timothy Muehlhoff — June 10, 2024
Susan Lim is a history scholar and writer who decided to follow Jesus in her teenage years after having grown up in a Buddhist family. Susan shares her story from Buddha to Jesus, and it’s a powerful story that has reverberated through her family.
Winsome Conviction
Intolerance and the Riddle of Words
Timothy Muehlhoff — May 28, 2024
"I don't understand why Christians have to be so intolerant of others." You can read Tim's recent article at the Christian Scholar's blog for more.
Winsome Conviction
Episode 97: Communication Spirals & The Temptation To Escalate
Rick Langer, Timothy Muehlhoff — May 27, 2024
What are communication spirals and how do they contribute to the argument culture? Tim and Rick discuss these patterns of negative communication and what can trigger them.
Winsome Conviction
A Better Conversation
Rick Langer, Timothy Muehlhoff — May 21, 2024
Outreach magazine recently featured an article written by Rick and Tim on the difference between being politically concerned and politicizing one's concerns.
Winsome Conviction
How To Surface a Person's Worldview
Timothy Muehlhoff — May 20, 2024
Tim and Sean McDowell wrote a post for Talbot School of Theology’s Good Book blog on ways to “draw out” a person’s perspective in order to have a more fruitful conversation.
The Good Book Blog
How to Surface a Person’s Worldview
Sean McDowell, Timothy Muehlhoff — May 17, 2024
Ancient wisdom writers note that the “purpose in a man’s heart is likedeep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out” (Prov. 20:5, ESV).In...
Winsome Conviction
Episode 96: Thinking About Attending A Gay Wedding?
Rick Langer, Bob Lepine, Timothy Muehlhoff — May 13, 2024
Earlier this year, a convictional firestorm ensued over advice Alistair Begg, a prominent North American pastor and radio host of Truth for Life, gave to a woman about attending her grandchild's gay wedding. Bob Lepine, the on-air announcer for Truth for Life, speaks with Tim and Rick about how this situation provides us with an opportunity to clarify our thinking around convictions and guidelines for faithful conduct.
Winsome Conviction
Episode 94: Assessing Disagreements Among Friends
Isaac Adams, Rick Langer, Timothy Muehlhoff, Austin Suter — April 15, 2024
Isaac Adams and Austin Suter recount a significant disagreement they experienced in their friendship. They go back into the disagreement with Tim and Rick and discuss issues of contempt, interpersonal differences, complexities and wounds, and spiritual battle.
Winsome Conviction
Episode 92: A Friendship Forged Through Differences
Isaac Adams, Rick Langer, Timothy Muehlhoff, Austin Suter — March 18, 2024
Isaac Adams and Austin Suter discuss the challenges and camaraderie they’ve experienced in their interracial friendship. They speak with Tim and Rick about the beginnings of their friendship and the importance of having an established relationship when the difficulties and disagreements hit.
Winsome Conviction
Tim Travels To Israel
Timothy Muehlhoff — March 11, 2024
Tim recently traveled to Israel to join a group of scholars and activists to discuss the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Read more about his time in this Biola news article, "Communication Professor Has Unique Opportunity to Visit Israel".
Winsome Conviction
Episode 91: Biola Students Share Their Experience With Unify America
Rick Langer, Timothy Muehlhoff — March 04, 2024
On this segment of Reports From The Front, two of Tim’s students, Helena and Carson, who are studying Communications at Biola University, discuss their recent experience on Unify America. They seized the opportunity to speak with their political opposites on contested issues, including abortion, and they speak with Tim and Rick about what it was like.
Winsome Conviction
Episode 90: Reports From The Front: Unify America
Abby Ferguson, Rick Langer, Timothy Muehlhoff — February 19, 2024
Tim and Rick speak with Abby Ferguson, Director of Partnerships with Unify America, on the challenges of communicating personal convictions to people we disagree with as well as progress Unify America is seeing with students who participate in the Unify Challenge College Bowl.
Winsome Conviction
Episode 89: Why Are People Leaving Church?
Jim Davis, Rick Langer, Timothy Muehlhoff — February 05, 2024
Jim Davis, pastor and co-author of the recent book, The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back, is back on the podcast to speak with Tim and Rick about some of the reasons why people are leaving churches.
Winsome Conviction
Episode 88: On The Road To UC Berkeley
Rick Langer, Timothy Muehlhoff — January 22, 2024
Through our connections with CRU, a ministry that engages students and faculty on college campuses across the U.S., the Winsome Conviction Project received an invitation to provide training for a student group at UC Berkeley on how to have winsome conversations with people who hold opposing views.
Winsome Conviction
Episode 87: Be An Ambassador for Christ: Statecraft and Shrewdness
Tim Downs, Rick Langer, Timothy Muehlhoff — January 08, 2024
In 2 Corinthians 5:20, the Apostle Paul tells Christians that they are “ambassadors for Christ.” Ambassadorship is part of our identity. Paul wrote these words a long time ago, so what does it look like to be an ambassador today?
Winsome Conviction
Episode 86: The Four Horsemen of the (Relational) Apocalypse
Rick Langer, Timothy Muehlhoff — December 25, 2023
Conflict in relationships is unavoidable. Healthy and successful relationships know how to counteract unhealthy communication styles and adopt alternative forms of discourse to work through the conflict.
Winsome Conviction
Spiritual Battle and Winsome Conviction
Timothy Muehlhoff — December 20, 2023
Conflict in relationships is unavoidable. Healthy and successful relationships know how to counteract unhealthy communication styles and adopt alternative forms of discourse to work through the conflict.
Winsome Conviction
How to Disagree Well
Timothy Muehlhoff — December 19, 2023
Tim was a recent guest on the Placed For A Purpose podcast to talk about how to disagree well with our neighbors. Through storytelling from his own life and current events, Tim uses practical and Biblical wisdom to help us learn how to dialogue with our neighbors.
Winsome Conviction
Episode 85: Getting Help From Gottman
Rick Langer, Timothy Muehlhoff — December 11, 2023
American psychologist John Gottman has a knack for discerning healthy arguments from unhealthy ones, and he is known for identifying pattern markers that spell doom for a relationship.
Winsome Conviction
Biola Students Talk With Their Political Opposites
Rick Langer, Timothy Muehlhoff — December 07, 2023
Watch Biola students talking about their experience with Unify America.
Winsome Conviction
Episode 84: Let's Work On Indirect Communication
Tim Downs, Rick Langer, Timothy Muehlhoff — November 27, 2023
Culture changes, and rapid shifts in culture generate challenges in communication. Although the truth of the Gospel is timeless, Christians should do their homework on changes in culture and figure out how to shape the Good News so that it is hearable.
Winsome Conviction
Episode 83: The Great Dechurching
Jim Davis, Rick Langer, Timothy Muehlhoff — November 13, 2023
Jim Davis, pastor and co-author of the recent book, The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back, comes on the podcast to talk about the current and fastest religious shift going on in America.
Winsome Conviction
Episode 82: It's Not Pointless, Good Things Still Happen
Rick Langer, Timothy Muehlhoff — October 30, 2023
We’re revisiting a question we frequently get: “Why bother talking to somebody if you aren’t going to change their mind?” Especially in the argument culture, conversing with someone who won’t change their mind can seem pointless, an exercise in futility.
Winsome Conviction
Episode 81: Tim Keller's Remarkable Civility
Rick Langer, Timothy Muehlhoff — October 16, 2023
Tim Keller was a pastor in New York City who had enormous influence far beyond the city limits. He died of pancreatic cancer in May 2023. One of his many influences that is sure to endure will be on how to engage public life with faithful Christian witness.