The Winsome Conviction Podcast

Tim and Rick resume the conversation on “hospitable orthodoxy” with Dr. Karen Swallow Prior. In this episode, they consider examples of people who demonstrate this idea in action and provide us with examples of truth and love working in harmony.

Rick writes over at the Christian Scholar's blog on the need for gentleness as a posture of engagement.

It can be hard to love someone with whom you disagree, especially when those disagreements involve faith convictions and ideas central to identity. We don’t want to abandon truth in our aims to love, but we can also miss the mark by failing to love while holding fast to the truth.

Tim shares his 5 favorite books to help avoid an argument with someone close over at Shepherd books.

Tim and Rick continue to reflect on lessons they are learning on having healthy communication during moments of passionate disagreement.

We are two years in with the Winsome Conviction Project, so it’s a good time to stop and reflect on lessons we’re learning. Tim and Rick share what they are learning on having healthy communication during moments of passionate disagreement.

When disasters strike, people tend to put aside their differences and commit to work together to resolve the problem. These moments of crisis are instructive – they reveal our willingness to make “loose connections” with people we otherwise find disagreeable.

We’ve been talking with Gregg Ten Elshof (Ph.D.) on our need for shame. In this episode, Tim, Rick and Gregg pick up on notions of honor in order to cultivate a healthy understanding of shame.

Tim and Rick resume the discussion with Gregg Ten Elshof on the topic of shame. In part 2, they pick up on the ways communities influence personal feelings of shame.

Is shame good or bad? In one sense, it is bad. In another sense, according to Gregg Ten Elshof, author of the recent book For Shame: Rediscovering the Virtues of a Maligned Emotion, a certain kind of shame can be good.