Category Archives: Podcast

You can expect an audio blog every Thursday, monthly ERI updates, and occasional live speech/Q&A audios. Pretty soon we’ll also start featuring regular 3-5 minute snippets from the Equipped for Life Course Podcast as well.

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PODCAST: Bring Structure to Your Dialogues by Making Little Agreements

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Little conversational agreements create clarity about the kind of conversation you’re having. This is especially helpful with difficult people, because it clarifies for you and for them that they’re being difficult and calls them to a higher standard of dialogue.

Related Links:

  • Click here to read the article Tim referenced about how to graciously call someone out who is being rude.

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COURSE PODCAST CLIP: Responding to the Question of Rape 201

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Every other Wednesday we publish a new episode of the Equipped for Life Podcast, available to everyone who purchases our course, “Equipped for Life: A Fresh Approach to Conversations about Abortion.” Generally, these podcast episodes won’t be available to the general public, but we plan on releasing short clips from the episodes every Thursday, to give you a sense of what these podcasts are like.

In this episode of the Equipped for Life Course Podcast, Jacob joins us again to talk about two areas related to training pro-life advocates to respond to the question of rape that we’ve changed our minds about.

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In this clip from the full episode, Tim and I explain one of the ways we’ve changed our mind and what that process looked like.

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PODCAST: When and How You Should End Unproductive Conversations

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It is one of the questions I’m asked the most often. We’ve all experienced it. You’re talking to someone about abortion or something else and it’s just not going very well. You start doubting whether any good will come from letting the dialogue continue. If you do decide to end the conversation, you have to figure out how to graciously bring the dialogue to a close, which can also be tricky. How do you know? What factors should you consider?

Related Links:

  • Click here to watch my speech at the 2014 Students for Life Conference: “I’m Pro-Life, But…”  The section explaining the three essential skills is from 4:41 to 17:43.
  • Click here to watch my speech at the 2015 Students for Life Conference: “6 Practical Tips for Having Good Dialogues.”

Click here to share the original article.

Click here to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes!

Subscribe to the Equipped for Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Subscribe to ERI’s other podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

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COURSE PODCAST CLIP: When They Bite the Bullet – Part 3

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Every other Wednesday we publish a new episode of the Equipped for Life Podcast, available to everyone who purchases our course, “Equipped for Life: A Fresh Approach to Conversations about Abortion.” Generally, these podcast episodes won’t be available to the general public, but we plan on releasing short clips from the episodes every Thursday, to give you a sense of what these podcasts are like.

In this episode of the Equipped for Life Course Podcast, Tim, Jacob, and I conclude our discussion of how to respond when people bite the bullet by discussing the examples of infanticide and moral relativism.

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In these clips from the full episode, Tim and I argue about whose approach to responding to relativists is more effective.

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PODCAST: When a Hypothetical Story Isn’t Hypothetical After All

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Sometimes when I talk about abortion with strangers, it feels like I’ve already had that conversation before, because they’re making familiar statements. But the truth is, I haven’t had that conversation before, because I haven’t heard that statement from that person before. Even though some statements are very common, different people mean very different things by them. A recent conversation I had with a hotel shuttle driver named “Mark” reminded me that while I may have heard the same words before, I hadn’t heard his story before. I think there’s a lesson you can learn from this situation that will help you have better dialogues with pro-choice people.

Related Links:

  • Click here to watch my speech at the 2015 Students for Life Conference: 6 Practical Tips for Having Good Dialogues

Click here to share the original article.

Click here to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes!

Subscribe to the Equipped for Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Subscribe to ERI’s other podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.