Rick Langer, Timothy Muehlhoff, Karen Swallow Prior
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.
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.
Dr. Russell Moore joins the podcast to speak with Tim and Rick on issues and scandals in our cultural moment that erode trust in Christian leaders and instill cynicism toward the Church and the claims of the Christian faith.
Rick and Tim resume the conversation on themes in Tim’s newest book, Eyes To See: Recognizing God’s Common Grace in an Unsettled World.
About the Podcast
The Winsome Conviction podcast is a biweekly podcast on learning how to deepen convictions without dividing communities. In each episode, hosts Tim Muehlhoff, Rick Langer and Mike Ahn along with frequent guest experts, consider how to cultivate understanding around our most closely held convictions and foster civility and compassion in disagreement.
To submit comments, ask questions, or make suggestions on issues you'd like us to cover or guests you'd like us to have on the podcast, email us at winsomeconviction@biola.edu.