Speaker Information:
Josh Brahm
Presentation Description: Relational Apologetics: How to Cultivate Friendship Amidst Challenging Conversations.
“Relational apologetics” means cultivating relationships with people who have different beliefs, for the sake of genuine friendship and for discovering truth together.
Josh illustrates with multiple stories from his life of pro-choice friends he’s spent time with discussing abortion. After making two arguments for why people ought to have a pro-choice friend, Josh offers several practical tips for cultivating friendships with people who disagree about important issues.
Speaker Bio:
Josh has worked in the pro-life movement since he was 18. After 12 years of full-time pro-life work, he launched Equal Rights Institute to maximize his impact on the movement.
Josh’s primary passion is helping pro-life people to be more persuasive when they communicate with pro-choice people. That means ditching the faulty rhetoric and tactics and embracing arguments that hold up under philosophical scrutiny. Josh works to bring relational apologetics to the pro-life movement.
Josh hosts the Equipped for Life Podcast. He’s also written dozens of articles for LifeNews.com and the ERI blog. He has been interviewed by the Washington Post, NPR, and Focus on the Family. He also directed the first 40 Days for Life campaign in Fresno, resulting in up to 60 lives saved. Josh has been happily married to his wife, Hannah, for 17 years. They have three sons, Noah, William, and Eli. They live in Charlotte, North Carolina.
“Relational apologetics” means cultivating relationships with people who have different beliefs, for the sake of genuine friendship and for discovering truth together.
Josh illustrates with multiple stories from his life of pro-choice friends he’s spent time with discussing abortion. After making two arguments for why people ought to have a pro-choice friend, Josh offers several practical tips for cultivating friendships with people who disagree about important issues.
Speaker Bio:
Josh has worked in the pro-life movement since he was 18. After 12 years of full-time pro-life work, he launched Equal Rights Institute to maximize his impact on the movement.
Josh’s primary passion is helping pro-life people to be more persuasive when they communicate with pro-choice people. That means ditching the faulty rhetoric and tactics and embracing arguments that hold up under philosophical scrutiny. Josh works to bring relational apologetics to the pro-life movement.
Josh hosts the Equipped for Life Podcast. He’s also written dozens of articles for LifeNews.com and the ERI blog. He has been interviewed by the Washington Post, NPR, and Focus on the Family. He also directed the first 40 Days for Life campaign in Fresno, resulting in up to 60 lives saved. Josh has been happily married to his wife, Hannah, for 17 years. They have three sons, Noah, William, and Eli. They live in Charlotte, North Carolina.