Rick Langer, Timothy Muehlhoff, Karen Swallow Prior
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.
Rick Langer, Timothy Muehlhoff, Karen Swallow Prior
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 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.
51ԹϺ 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.
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