Its hard to talk about race, so were looking to Isaac Adams for help. Isaac Adams is the lead pastor of Ironside City Church in Birmingham, Alabama, and he recently wrote a book on race for Christians.
Tim and Rick have been discussing the practice of hospitable orthodoxy with Dr. Karen Swallow Prior. In this episode, Dr. Prior shares how reading the Great Books have helped her to cultivate a posture of hospitable orthodoxy to those with whom she disagrees.
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.
It can be hard to love someone with whom you disagree, especially when those disagreements involve faith convictions and ideas central to identity. We dont 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 its a good time to stop and reflect on lessons were 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.
Weve 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.
Tims newest book, Eyes To See: Recognizing Gods Common Grace in an Unsettled World, is out. Rick and Tim take up the books theme of common grace and consider how it impacts topics and issues around winsome conviction.
Tim and Rick continue the conversation with Dr. Theon Hill on the topic of radical rhetoric, and they press into the role of rhetoric in contentious issues such as critical race theory.
Tim and Rick resume the conversation with Quentin Schultze on listening. Manner matters in communication, and they discuss how the habit of giving thanks affects how we communicate with others.
Why is listening so difficult? In todays argument culture, listening is especially difficult, and it often seems as if we have an incapacity to listen.
Tim and Rick continue the discussion with Cas Monaco on sharing the gospel in modern times. In Part 2 of this discussion, Dr. Monaco shares findings from a 2016 survey on the climate of evangelism in America.
Tim and Rick speak with Cas Monaco on sharing the gospel in modern times. Dr. Monacos research identifies several behavioral changes Christians can make to help others listen to the gospel and make evangelism winsome.
What assumptions do we pass along to young Christians about what the Christian life is like? And how might we pass along the faith to young Christians in ways that help them foster a faith that endures?
Tim is joined by Dr. Joy Qualls (Associate Dean of Communication Studies at 51勛圖窪蹋) to discuss the pains and pressures of online incivility and whether we can be civil in online discourse.
Stories of Christians abandoning their faith have us thinking about the relationship between deconversion and convictions. So, when we heard about John Marriotts book, The Anatomy of Deconversion, it got our attention.
Tim and Rick resume the discussion with Simon Greer, social entrepreneur and founder of Bridging the Gap, on his more recent project with students at Oberlin College and Spring Arbor University. Simon unpacks the skills and practices he has found beneficial in helping students find common ground.
Simon Greer is a social entrepreneur with an interesting story. One of his more recent efforts in social change involves helping students at Oberlin, a more progressive college, and students at Spring Arbor, a more conservative university, find common ground.
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