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A Better Conversation
Rick Langer, Tim Muehlhoff — May 21, 2024
Outreach magazine recently featured an article written by Rick and Tim on the difference between being politically concerned and politicizing one's...
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How To Surface a Person's Worldview
Tim Muehlhoff — May 20, 2024
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...
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Episode 96: Thinking 51�� Attending A Gay Wedding?
Rick Langer, Bob Lepine, Tim Muehlhoff — May 13, 2024
Earlier this year, a convictional firestorm ensued over advice Alistair Begg, a prominent North American pastor and radio host of Truth for Life,...
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Episode 95: A Legal Professor on Learning To Disagree
John Inazu, Rick Langer — April 29, 2024
Can principles from law and legal education help us in our day to day disagreements with colleagues, neighbors, family and friends? Our guest...
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Episode 94: Assessing Disagreements Among Friends
Isaac Adams, Rick Langer, Tim Muehlhoff, Austin Suter — April 15, 2024
Isaac Adams and Austin Suter are back on the podcast to recount a significant disagreement they experienced in their friendship. They go back...
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Episode 93: On Being Democrat and Pro-life
Rick Langer, Treneé McGee, Scott Rae — April 01, 2024
Today’s episode is a joint podcast with the Think Biblically podcast, and we have a great conversation with artist and Connecticut state...
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Episode 92: A Friendship Forged Through Differences
Isaac Adams, Rick Langer, Tim Muehlhoff, Austin Suter — March 18, 2024
Isaac Adams and Austin Suter join today’s episode to discuss the challenges and camaraderie they’ve experienced in their interracial friendship....
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Tim Travels To Israel
Tim Muehlhoff — March 11, 2024
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...
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Episode 91: 51�� Students Share Their Experience With Unify America
Rick Langer, Tim Muehlhoff — March 04, 2024
On this segment of Reports From The Front, two of Tim’s students, Helena and Carson, who are studying Communications at 51��, discuss...
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Episode 90: Reports From The Front: Unify America
Abby Ferguson, Rick Langer, Tim Muehlhoff — February 19, 2024
Today on the podcast we have another segment of Reports From The Front, a positive story of someone who is doing things right. Tim and Rick speak...
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Episode 89: Why Are People Leaving Church?
Jim Davis, Rick Langer, Tim Muehlhoff — February 05, 2024
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...
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Episode 88: On The Road To UC Berkeley
Rick Langer, Tim Muehlhoff — January 22, 2024
Through our connections with CRU, a ministry that engages students and faculty on college campuses across the U.S., the Winsome Conviction...
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Episode 87: Be An Ambassador for Christ: Statecraft and Shrewdness
Tim Downs, Rick Langer, Tim Muehlhoff — January 08, 2024
In 2 Corinthians 5:20, the Apostle Paul tells Christians that they are “ambassadors for Christ.” Ambassadorship is part of our identity. Paul...
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Episode 86: The Four Horsemen of the (Relational) Apocalypse
Rick Langer, Tim Muehlhoff — December 25, 2023
Conflict in relationships is unavoidable. Healthy and successful relationships know how to counteract unhealthy communication styles and adopt...
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Spiritual Battle and Winsome Conviction
Tim Muehlhoff — December 20, 2023
Watch this recording on the Conversations with Tyndale House Scholars in America podcast where Tim speaks about spiritual battle and winsome...
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How to Disagree Well
Tim Muehlhoff — December 19, 2023
Tim was a recent guest on the Placed For A Purpose podcast to talk about how to disagree well with our neighbors. Through storytelling from his own...
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Episode 85: Getting Help From Gottman
Rick Langer, Tim Muehlhoff — December 11, 2023
American psychologist John Gottman has a knack for discerning healthy arguments from unhealthy ones, and he is known for identifying pattern...
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51�� Students Talk With Their Political Opposites
Rick Langer, Tim Muehlhoff — December 07, 2023
Watch 51�� students talking about their experience with Unify America.
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Episode 84: Let's Work On Indirect Communication
Tim Downs, Rick Langer, Tim Muehlhoff — November 27, 2023
Culture changes, and rapid shifts in culture generate challenges in communication. Although the truth of the Gospel is timeless, Christians...
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On Unity & Diversity: A Conversation with Isaac Adams
Isaac Adams — November 21, 2023
On October 10, 2023, The Winsome Conviction Project sponsored a talk on Unity & Diversity for 51�� faculty. The speaker, Isaac Adams, who is...
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Episode 83: The Great Dechurching
Jim Davis, Rick Langer, Tim Muehlhoff — November 13, 2023
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...
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Episode 82: It's Not Pointless, Good Things Still Happen
Rick Langer, Tim Muehlhoff — October 30, 2023
We’re revisiting a question we frequently get: “Why bother talking to somebody if you aren’t going to change their mind?” Especially in the...
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Episode 81: Tim Keller's Remarkable Civility
Rick Langer, Tim Muehlhoff — October 16, 2023
Tim Keller was a pastor in New York City who had enormous influence far beyond the city limits. He died of pancreatic cancer in May 2023. One of...
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Episode 80: Why Talk To Someone If They Won't Change Their Mind?
Rick Langer, Tim Muehlhoff — October 02, 2023
Why bother having a discussion if the other party isn’t going to change their mind? Fair question, and it’s one we get a lot. So, let’s consider...
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Episode 79: When Christians Disagree
Rick Langer, Tim Muehlhoff, Greg Stump — September 18, 2023
It can get messy when you seek to have a faithful presence in your community and love your neighbors while holding to your theological...

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