How do we engage our friends, family, and others around controversial issues, particularly

those in science?

Why do these controversial issues trigger emotional responses, and how do we manage our emotions

in these discussions?

We'll discuss these questions and a whole lot more with our guest, our Talbot colleague in

philosophy, Dr. Tim Pickavans, around some new research that he and other Biola faculty members have been involved in.

I'm your host, Scott Ray, and this is Think Biblically from Tabal School of Theology at Biola

University. Tim, welcome. Really glad to have you with us. So appreciate this area of research

that you guys have been involved in. I'm very anxious to have our listeners get access to some of this good work that you all have been doing.

Hey, thanks, Scott.

I'm glad to be here.

So this is kind of a bit of a narrow research topic.

But, and obviously there was some backstory to this about what got you interested in this area. It's not something you were

doing, but you're doing by yourself. It's with a team of folks. But having the whole team here would

be a little bit crowded around the table. So what sparked your interest in this area to begin with?

Yeah, thanks for asking that. It's, it's kind of a long story,

but I'll do my best to summarize it a bit. There are really kind of two parts to the story. One is

just my independent interest in questions around emotions and what we should do with those as we

think about the world and think about God who made the world.

And I sort of backed my way into those questions through thinking about some problems

both philosophical and theological that are connected to religious pluralism and even pastoral

that are connected to religious pluralisms.

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