Estimated reading time: 7 minutes. 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 … Read More
Relating to Relativists
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes. Since I started working as a pro-life advocate in 2011, I have deeply struggled with how to have productive conversations with moral relativists. I could “win a debate” with them, but I have a loftier goal of actually changing their minds, and I was nowhere … Read More
6 Tactics That Helped Me Have a Productive Conversation with Three Mormon Missionaries
These six tactics not only helped me navigate a 90-minute debate with three Mormons when I didn’t know anything about Mormonism, they can also help you have better conversations with pro-choice people. Estimated reading time: 11 minutes. I’ve never really spoken with missionaries from the Church of Latter-Day Saints before. … Read More
The Biology Professor Who Hated Our Outreach Exhibit
Estimated reading time: 9 minutes. The highlights from my debate with a college professor who thought we were a bunch of religious extremists with a deceptive fetal development display. This last weekend I led a Right to Life of Central CA sponsored Justice For All seminar and outreach at Fresno … Read More
Sometimes What You Should Say is Nothing
It was spring, 2010. I was at Pasadena City College with Justice for All. I was standing inside the barricades protecting the large 18-foot-tall pro-life display. It was a quiet hour on campus. Most students were in class. I saw her coming from a block away. She was with her … Read More
Do Pro-Choice People Make Me Angry?
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes. I have a great pro-choice friend who is both a careful thinker and very open-minded. I think we’ve exchanged about 100 emails to each other so far, and we’re far from finished. With her permission, I want to share with you a few questions she … Read More
What We Can Learn from Hateful Street Preachers
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes. Update: 3/25/13: This article has gone viral. Thanks to Abby Johnson, Live Action News and LifeSiteNews for running it. The article has been shared all over Facebook with thousands of views, likes and comments. I hear it’s been discussed all over Fresno State University, even … Read More
Does NASA’s Definition of Life Conflict with the Pro-Life Position?
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes. I had a conversation with a pro-choice person this year that was unique enough that it bears repeating, in case you ever hear a similar argument. We set up some poll tables and Justice For All‘s new “Where Do You Draw the Line” exhibit at … Read More
Effectively Responding to Moral Relativism
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes. This post was first published at Life Training Institute’s blog. The resource links at the end were updated in October, 2017. While working last week with the Justice For All exhibit at Kennesaw State University, I got into a conversation with two students, Justin and … Read More