Feeling alienated by the convictions in your own church or family Professors Tim Muehlhoff and Rick Langer codirectors of the Winsome Conviction Project help you navigate conversations on sensitive topics that often separate us like politics and religion Find practical strategies for healthy productive dialogue and learn how to disagree without dividing Show Notes and Resources Connect with Tim Muehlhoff and Rick Langer and catch more of their thoughts on the Winsome Conviction podcast And grab their book Winsome Conviction Disagreeing Without Dividing the Church in our shop Intrigued by today's episode Grab more thoughts from Rick and Tim in [... more]

Do conversations with family or church members lately feel littered with relational razorblades Drs Tim Muehlhoff and Rick Langer codirectors of the Winsome Conviction Project navigate the treacherous terrain of discussing sensitive topics like politics and religion within families and the church Armed with intellectual dynamite they emphasize powerful techniques toward disagreeing without dividing Show Notes and Resources Connect with Tim Muehlhoff and Rick Langer and catch more of their thoughts on the Winsome Conviction podcast And grab their book Winsome Conviction Disagreeing Without Dividing the Church in our shop Intrigued by today's episode Grab more thoughts from Rick and [... more]

This week on Family Policy Matters host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Dr Brad Littlejohn to discuss the migration trends that have been happening across the country over the last few years resulting in many people moving to North Carolina [... more]

David Isay started Storycorps nearly years ago as a way for people to memorialize their feelings about someone close to them through recorded discussions One Small Step is an offshoot of Storycorps and employs some of the same techniques but the goal is very different This project was conceived as a small way to begin to get us out of what Isay calls the Hate Industrial Complex meaning the media on all sides of the political spectrum profiting from our current culture of contempt for one another Learn more about your ad choices Visit megaphone fm adchoices [... more]

Listen Live to the Todd Starnes Show with Guest Host Mary Walter Mary discusses the news of the day with Monica Crowley amp Wallbuilders founder David Burton and interviews Miranda Devine author of Laptop From Hell See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

Voters in two N C congressional districts headed to the polls for special elections this week Rick Henderson Carolina Journal editor-in-chief analyzes results from the special rd District and th District races Henderson looks ahead to possible implications for Republicans and Democrats running in Political polarization has had major effects on American political life Thomas Cushman professor of sociology at Wellesley College and a - visiting research fellow at Wake Forest examines the impact of polarization on support for free speech Cushman says surveys show that young people divide on ideological grounds over whether to give precedence to inclusion and [... more]

The newly minted N C State Board of Elections meets next week to discuss an investigation into absentee ballot irregularities in the still unsettled th District congressional election Rick Henderson Carolina Journal editor-in-chief analyzes the latest developments in the electoral battle between Republican Mark Harris and Democrat Dan McCready One of the hottest topics in the world of college sports involves paying athletes for their performance Former N C Supreme Court Justice Bob Orr doesn't want to get caught up in that debate But Orr recently told the state's Legislative Commission on the Fair Treatment of Student-Athletes that he favors [... more]

A recent Civitas poll suggests North Carolina will continue to play a role as an election battleground state in Rick Henderson Carolina Journal editor-in-chief dissects the poll's key findings Henderson assesses the implications for Tar Heel politics during the next two years Partisans on both the left and right tend to agree that our political debates have become far too polarized In a recent column for National Review Online John Locke Foundation Chairman John Hood offered ideas for addressing the crippling level of polarization Hood highlighted the work of North Carolina's bipartisan Leadership Forum Today's economy requires an increased role [... more]