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Tim and Isaac Adams resume the conversation on race and discuss practical insights and advice for the Church when we talk about race.

It’s hard to talk about race, so we’re looking to Isaac Adams for help. Isaac Adams is the lead pastor of Ironside City Church in Birmingham, Alabama, and he recently wrote a book on race for Christians.

Tim and Rick have been discussing the practice of hospitable orthodoxy with Dr. Karen Swallow Prior. In this episode, Dr. Prior shares how reading the Great Books have helped her to cultivate a posture of hospitable orthodoxy to those with whom she disagrees.

Tim and Rick resume the conversation on “hospitable orthodoxy” with Dr. Karen Swallow Prior. In this episode, they consider examples of people who demonstrate this idea in action and provide us with examples of truth and love working in harmony.

Rick writes over at the Christian Scholar's blog on the need for gentleness as a posture of engagement.

It can be hard to love someone with whom you disagree, especially when those disagreements involve faith convictions and ideas central to identity. We don’t want to abandon truth in our aims to love, but we can also miss the mark by failing to love while holding fast to the truth.

Tim shares his 5 favorite books to help avoid an argument with someone close over at Shepherd books.

Tim and Rick continue to reflect on lessons they are learning on having healthy communication during moments of passionate disagreement.

We are two years in with the Winsome Conviction Project, so it’s a good time to stop and reflect on lessons we’re learning. Tim and Rick share what they are learning on having healthy communication during moments of passionate disagreement.

When disasters strike, people tend to put aside their differences and commit to work together to resolve the problem. These moments of crisis are instructive – they reveal our willingness to make “loose connections” with people we otherwise find disagreeable.