Collegiality and Friendship Amidst Religious Disagreement

There is a need for students to learn good models for handling difficult conversations. So on today’s episode, Tim and Dr. Andrew Reed (Ph.D.) from Brigham Young University (BYU) take up this call and continue the conversation by bringing together students from both universities, Biola and BYU, for civil discourse on religion, theology, and social issues. They debrief their experience in a course Tim and Andrew are co-teaching, and they discuss the importance of understanding your neighbor’s perspective as a way to love your neighbor, Aristotle’s method of the dialectic, and the difference between emphatic vs. phatic communication.

Show notes and a full transcript are available.