The Equal Rights Institute Podcast

This is a short clip from the Equipped for Life Podcast, available to everyone who purchases the Equipped for Life Course. In this episode of the Equipped for Life Course Podcast, Josh plays pro-life and Tim plays pro-choice in an example dialogue. In this clip from the full episode, you’ll hear Josh discover the key to Tim’s pro-choice view and hear them debate utilitarianism.

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 to be as inviting and friendly as possible. However, men have more influence with other men in front of an abortion clinic than women do. This is why Jacob tries so hard to get the attention of the male escorts.

Josh gives an update on the main things that have been going on at ERI in the last month and what we're working on next.

This is a short clip from the Equipped for Life Podcast, available to everyone who purchases the Equipped for Life Course. In this episode of the Equipped for Life Course Podcast, Josh, Tim, and Rachel discuss how to use humor in a dialogue and give many practical examples of how to find places to inject humor. In these clips from the full episode, you’ll hear some of the preliminary discussion and three examples of ways they use humor.

A couple years ago, Tim had a conversation with a student that he calls Brent. This conversation became very useful as a teaching tool. Brent was a very interesting person and they had a long conversation that allowed them to cover a lot of material. Tim was also able to test some of his new ideas during this conversation. He wrote two blog posts about his conversation with Brent. This is the first.

This is a short clip from the Equipped for Life Podcast, available to everyone who purchases the Equipped for Life Course. In this episode of the Equipped for Life Course Podcast, Josh, Tim, and Rachel discuss a question that is often used to critique the pro-life position, whether women should be prosecuted if abortion becomes illegal. You’ll certainly want to prepare for this question before you do a campus outreach.

Josh spoke at Stonebridge Church in Charlotte last month after they finished going through the Equipped for Life Course, to offer some practical tips on relational apologetics and take their questions. This is the audio from the Q&A portion of that event.

This is a short clip from the Equipped for Life Podcast, available to everyone who purchases the Equipped for Life Course. In this episode of the Equipped for Life Course Podcast, Tim plays pro-life and Rachel plays pro-choice in an example dialogue. In this clip from the full episode, you’ll hear the first part of their dialogue.

Josh has written a series of blog posts on what pro-lifers should say to someone who wishes they had been aborted, is happy about her abortion, or has post-abortive friends. But what should pro-lifers say to someone who performs abortions? Josh wrote this piece after thinking, looking at other discussions, and getting feedback from Abby Johnson. After publishing it, an abortion practitioner from the midwest reached out, saying she would love to have coffee or lunch with him if Josh is ever in her area.

This is a short clip from the Equipped for Life Podcast, available to everyone who purchases the Equipped for Life Course. In this episode of the Equipped for Life Course Podcast, Rachel Crawford joins Josh and Tim to give some advice on how to best handle outreach situations with angry feminists. They discuss Rachel’s experiences as a women’s studies minor, how to think about the women’s studies field, some of the common feminist jargon, and more.

Millennials are terrified of offending people. They are surrounded by a world of trigger warnings and microaggressions. They worry that they’ll be shouted down if they say something that could be perceived as racist, sexist, homophobic, or somehow bigoted. They also really don’t want to be any of those things. This post is about how to improve your dialogues with people who are worried about offending you.

This is a short clip from the Equipped for Life Podcast, available to everyone who purchases the Equipped for Life Course. In this episode of the Equipped for Life Course Podcast, Missy Stone of Students for Life of America joins Josh and Tim to discuss the consistent life movement, the pro-life label, and to what extent the pro-life movement should focus on abortion. In these clips from the full episode, you’ll hear Josh, Tim, and Missy discuss whether student groups should focus on abortion.

This is a short story about one of Tim’s early pro-life experiences. When he shared it in a podcast, we thought it was a great story, so he decided to write this piece.

This is a short clip from the Equipped for Life Podcast, available to everyone who purchases the Equipped for Life Course. In this episode of the Equipped for Life Course Podcast, Josh and Tim discuss the challenging subject of confirmation bias. In this clip from the full episode, you’ll hear a discussion between Josh and Tim on how they perceive music in film, which then becomes an insightful way to think about confirmation bias. The full episode is available in this podcast feed as well.

In the past, Tim tended to think that changing someone’s mind about abortion was primarily about making good arguments, being clear, being fast on your feet, and maybe having a little bit of relational skill. The more he has dialogue with other people, the more he realizes that it’s actually the opposite. Changing someone’s mind about abortion involves primarily relational work with a little argument thrown in there. This piece came out of his processing this reality and deciding to expand on the i