[youtube id=”nVJ-TARRnxE”] Download Audio MP3 | 00:18:59 Bodily rights arguments for abortion are always extremist arguments, at least in the way people present them. No bodily rights argument that I have ever seen (or even heard of any pro-choice advocate making) leaves room for abortion exceptions. Click here to share … Read More
PODCAST: Recognizing the Root Problem
[youtube id=”4HkBnF3DAss”] Download Audio MP3 | 00:08:17 There’s another common reason that I change topics from abortion to something else: I discover that there is something more seriously wrong with their view than that they are pro-choice about abortion. Sometimes you can’t realistically make progress on abortion unless you deal … Read More
PODCAST: Be Open to Letting the Conversation Change Topics
[youtube id=”3fsg9WYLd7Y”] Download Audio MP3 | 00:04:38 You can’t dialogue well about abortion or anything else unless you learn to listen well. It should be obvious to anyone that if you want to listen well you shouldn’t interrupt people when they’re in the middle of a sentence. Something much less … Read More
ERI Update – May 2017
[youtube id=”XBl35NOb-uA”] Download Audio MP3 | 00:18:23 I summarize what has been going on at the ERI office in the last month, and what we have planned for the next few months. Apologies for the look of the video. I shot it on an iPhone and it was particularly humid in … Read More
PODCAST: Learning to Allow Space for the Thinking Pause
[youtube id=”iDsgxzHX75I”] Download Audio MP3 | 00:07:27 You can’t dialogue well about abortion or anything else unless you learn to listen well. It should be obvious to anyone that if you want to listen well you shouldn’t interrupt people when they’re in the middle of a sentence. Something much less … Read More
PODCAST: Three Tips for Dealing with the Name-Dropper
[youtube id=”1nquug0X1eo”] Download Audio MP3 | 00:04:10 Name-dropping can be frustrating and intimidating to some pro-life students, so here are my three suggestions for how to deal with the name-dropper. Click here to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, or click here to subscribe in SoundCloud! Subscribe to the Equipped … Read More
PODCAST: Will Smith’s Indefensible Moral Relativism
[youtube id=”Tr2eULsQ-kE”] Download Audio MP3 | 00:06:19 In a recent interview, Will Smith demonstrated why moral relativism, even if it sounds deep, is a nonsensical worldview. Click here to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, or click here to subscribe in SoundCloud! Subscribe to the Equipped for Life Podcast on … Read More
PODCAST: Snidely Whiplash Is Not on Facebook
[youtube id=”TWvBj0jNI1Q”] Download Audio MP3 | 00:03:57 Adopt the idea that there is no Snidely Whiplash and have more accurate beliefs and much better dialogue and understanding of people with whom you disagree. Click here to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, or click here to subscribe in SoundCloud! Subscribe … Read More
PODCAST: Responding to the Question of Rape with Wisdom and Compassion
[youtube id=”KcaF60eeDh4″] Download Audio MP3 | 00:07:21 I read an expanded version of a piece I wrote for Life Matters Journal, answering a reader who asked for help responding to the question of rape. Click here to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, or click here to subscribe in SoundCloud! … Read More
PODCAST: Don’t Call People Animals
[youtube id=”q4wSg_aHy8U”] Download Audio MP3 | 00:03:57 I read an article arguing that if you oppose dehumanizing fetuses, you should oppose dehumanizing anyone. Call them evil people. Never call them animals. Click here to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, or click here to subscribe in SoundCloud! Subscribe to the Equipped … Read More