Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, Conversations on Faith and Culture.

I'm your host Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics at

Talbot School of Theology here at Biola University.

And I'm your co-host Sean McDowell, Professor of Apoll... School of Theology here at Biola University.

And I'm your co-host Sean McDowell,

Professor of Apologetics at Taub School

Theology, Biola University.

We're here today with two of our faculty members,

to our faculty colleagues, Rick Langer, who's professor of theology at Talbot School of

of Theology and Dr. Tim Mulehoff, professor of communications at Biola University, they are

partnering together in what's called the Winsome Convictions Project.

They'll tell you a little bit more about what that's involved as we go along.

And they have a book entitled Winsome Conviction that will be coming out in just a few weeks

that you want to be sure to either pre-order or get a copy of as soon as it comes out.

They've been at this for a while in a variety of different settings.

They've had a lot of terrific experience at fostering winsome conversations

and enabling the people that they're around and the communities that

they're around to hold their convictions win-somely so appropriate today in our culture that's

characterized much more by divisiveness and rancor and anger

than it is by winsomeness.

We seem to be very skilled at holding our convictions in what I call a scorched earth way, which is not great, not

great for building bridges and fostering relationships across issues and

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