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.
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.
Can principles from law and legal education help us in our day to day disagreements with colleagues, neighbors, family and friends? Legal professor John Inazu, thinks so, and he speaks with Rick about his newly released book, Learning To Disagree: The Surprising Path to Navigating Differences with Empathy and Respect.
Timothy Muehlhoff, Rick Langer, Isaac Adams, Austin Suter
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.
Connecticut state representative Treneé McGee, who is a pro-life member of the Democratic Party, has a knack for holding together responsibilities and convictions that don’t often go together in our current political climate — artist/politician and pro-life/Democrat.
Isaac Adams, Austin Suter, Timothy Muehlhoff, Rick Langer
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
