[youtube id=”J2XXxvC8SJo”] Download Audio MP3 | 00:51:52 I spoke at Stonebridge Church in Charlotte again last November after they finished going through the Equipped for Life Course, to answer their questions. I’ll list the topics below in case you want to jump around: Josh BrahmJosh worked in the pro-life movement … Read More
Don’t Dialogue Like Hamilton OR Aaron Burr
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes. The character of Aaron Burr in Hamilton: An American Musical stands in stark contrast to the title character. Alexander Hamilton is brash, aggressive, tactless, and always reaches for what he wants, while Aaron Burr is polite, careful, and hesitant. When he initially meets Hamilton, Burr … Read More
How Your Brain Tricks You into Thinking the Other Side Is Stupid
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes. Sometimes your brain plays tricks on you. For instance, when you look at a stick in the water, it looks bent, even though it isn’t. Or, when you’re driving on a hot day, it looks like there is water on the road at the horizon, … Read More
Pro-Lifers Aren’t “Forcing” Women to Stay Pregnant
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes. Pro-choice advocates constantly describe the intentions of pro-lifers with the word “force.” “Pro-lifers want to force women to stay pregnant, force them to have babies, force them to go through pregnancy, force them to be a parent.” All of these statements are common, and all … Read More
Stop Calling People Animals
Almost two years ago I read about twenty-one Coptic Christians whom ISIS beheaded. One of my Facebook friends shared the list of the martyrs’ names, and, as I read through them, I noticed that one of them, Samuel Alham Wilson, happened to have the same first and last name as … Read More
Snidely Whiplash Is Not on Facebook
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes. Are you frustrated with political polarization? Have you noticed that conversations between the opposite ends of the political spectrum are getting harder and harder? Do you wonder why it has gotten so ugly, and do you wish you could do something about it? Read on. … Read More
A Simple Change That Instantly Communicates a Nuanced Approach to the Abortion Debate
It was only two months after launching Equal Rights Institute last year before we facilitated our first outreach. We had our training seminar developed by then, but we hadn’t yet had the opportunity to design our own outreach tools. So we utilized our favorite poll table option that we learned … Read More
Why Rhonda Changed Her Mind About Whether to Use the Word “Pro-Choice”
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes. We’ve been talking about language in the abortion debate a lot lately. It’s a subject I’ve written on several times before as well. If we want to be as persuasive as possible, it’s not only our arguments that matter, but the words we use that … Read More
How Should Pro-Lifers Think About Post-Abortive Shame?
The way our society uses the word “shaming” is complicated. In this post I discuss three different types of shaming and how they relate to abortion. Estimated reading time: 11 minutes. My views on this topic are the kind that if you only get a snippet of it out of … Read More
Question: What Would Be a Better Word Than “Abortionist”?
I’d like to host a discussion in the comments below. The question is: what would be a better word to use than “abortionist”? Estimated reading time: 2 minutes. UPDATE 7/13/15: There’s been lots of great discussion in the comments, from both sides of the debate, exactly what I was hoping … Read More