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[youtube id=”cNvi6DidIS0″] Download Audio MP3 | 00:14:30 When I was president of Students for Life at the University of Michigan, we tried to do an outreach at least once per month because we felt that once per semester wasn’t quite enough. With that experience and help from the rest of … Read More

[youtube id=”ODwBQMav2X0″] Download Audio MP3 | 00:16:40 If you are a part of a dialogue-oriented outreach, you should be paying attention to who should be in a given conversation, and who should not be. This is one of those advanced practical outreach tips that you just learn by doing outreach … Read More

[youtube id=”hLAG_Yq5iNk”] Download Audio MP3 | 00:04:45 This is a follow-up piece to my previous audio blog on logical fallacies and the danger of accusing people of fallacies they did not commit. This piece focuses on how to effectively expose logical fallacies that are committed during a dialogue. Because this … Read More

[youtube id=”vRe-h-uXHZ4″] Download Audio MP3 | 00:06:12 This is a piece that I wrote a few years ago. I was responding to an annoying trend that I had been seeing, at least among pro-life people. We are tempted to talk about fallacies all the time in conversation, but one danger … Read More

[youtube id=”9nZvS7gl_T8″] Download Audio MP3 | 00:10:17 A couple months ago, a series of tweets about abortion went viral. They used the pro-choice argument involving a burning fertility clinic thought experiment. As a pro-life advocate who occasionally gets questions about abortion issues, I received questions about this thought experiment from … Read More

[youtube id=”1zbFdAcNda4″] Download Audio MP3 | 00:10:27 This piece is an unofficial part 3 to the pieces about my conversation with Brent. Those articles ended up touching on the important issue of the role of the right to sex in the argument for abortion. When I came upon an article … Read More

[youtube id=”9_G1VTrF_oE”] Download Audio MP3 | 00:09:40 Unfortunately, there may be a time when threats or acts of violence against you become a reality while sidewalk counseling. It is important to know how to handle such a situation, and, in particular, when and how to involve the police. Jacob shares … Read More

[youtube id=”6mdjVNgPqLU”] Download Audio MP3 | 00:10:06 This is a continuation of my previous post “Four Practical Dialogue Tips from My Conversation with Brent.” That piece was focused on specific dialogue strategies I used in that conversation. This one is focused on a major aspect of Brent’s view that we … Read More

[youtube id=”CXWGCo_3Hfs”] Download Audio MP3 | 00:13:20 Often, as pro-lifers, we can assume that if we’re going to have people outside an abortion facility reaching out to those walking in, women will be far more effective than men. Women might seem less intimidating and easier to trust, and we want … Read More

[youtube id=”h_AlHuNA0hw”] Download Audio MP3 | 00:14:50 A couple years ago, I had a conversation with a student that I call Brent. This conversation became very useful as a teaching tool. He was a very interesting person and we had a long conversation that allowed us to cover a lot … Read More