In this update video, ERI President Josh Brahm announces the recent launch of Equipped for Life Academy, shares details on what comes with it, and pulls the curtain back a little at the technical nightmare that completing the course was. Finally Josh shares about the future of ERI, our 10th anniversary this year as an organization, and how we’re beginning to work with politicians on pro-life messaging.
Correction: Equipped for Life Academy includes 8 core lessons and 6 bonus lessons, not 8 bonus lessons.
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Equipped for Life Academy Fact Sheet
Using Cutting Edge Technology to Transform Global Pro-Life Apologetics
Equal Rights Institute Website
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Josh worked in the pro-life movement starting at age 18. After 12 years of full-time pro-life work he launched Equal Rights Institute to maximize his impact on the movement.
A sought-after speaker, Josh has spoken for more than 29,000 people in six countries and in 25 of the 50 states.
Josh’s primary passion is helping pro-life people to be more persuasive when they communicate with pro-choice people. That means ditching faulty rhetoric and tactics and embracing arguments that hold up under philosophical scrutiny.
He has publicly debated leaders from Planned Parenthood, the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), Georgians for Choice, and one of the leading abortion facilities in Atlanta.
Josh also wants to bring relational apologetics to the pro-life movement. “Some pro-choice people will not change their mind after one conversation on a college campus. Some of them will only change their mind after dozens of conversations with a person they trust in the context of friendship.”
Josh is formerly the host of a globally-heard podcast turned radio/TV show, Life Report and the Equipped for Life Podcast. He’s also written dozens of articles for LifeNews.com and the ERI blog. He has been interviewed by the Washington Post, NPR, and Focus on the Family.
He directed the first 40 Days for Life campaign in Fresno, resulting in up to 60 lives saved.
Josh has been happily married to his wife, Hannah, for 19 years. They have three sons, Noah, William, and Eli. They live in Charlotte, North Carolina.