Continuing in my ongoing theme of exploring conversational successes and failures I have a little ditty of an anecdote to share of my own interaction with somebody. I was meandering through our local video store looking for a movie to rent and as I did so I overheard two of the coworkers bantering with each other. The subject of religion came up and the one employee made it … [Read more...]
Atheist, meet God
This is a fascinating story of one Atheist's journey to Faith (Marilyn Adamson). She highlights the role that her friend played in that decision and this interaction provides another good case study of what was done right. Here are a few observations I hope you'll keep in mind as you read it. … [Read more...]
Chatting with Mormons, part 2
Previously I shared about my entry into Apologetics through the study of Mormonism. Today's story comes from another of my experiences with Mormons. It, unfortunately, also involved another failure. I guess I haven't had a lot of luck in my interactions with Mormons. From the time I first started learning about Mormonism to the time of this story I had investigated Mormonism … [Read more...]
Level-headed, deliberate, accurate
On my blog I want to share stories of successes as well as failures, and today's is a story of success. And, as a self-deprecating Canadian who will readily point out my own failure but is reluctant to highlight my own success, sharing this story is somewhat therapeutic for me. I have plenty of failures and I'm sure we'll look at some of those in the future (I already shared … [Read more...]
Jehovah's Witnesses meet Grace, Patience
If you've poked around at my blog at all then you'll know that I am always on the lookout for great stories of people interacting with others from which we can learn lessons. This story blew my mind. Frankly this is pretty much a case study in getting things exactly right! This will be a bit of a longer blog post because there are just so many things to discuss and so many … [Read more...]
Know-it-all Syndrome
Here's an all-too-typical story from the front lines of Apologetics. I was once doing some evangelism with a friend on my college campus. We engaged a guy in conversation about God, and things quickly became heated. He was an international student, not at all Christian, and had a more or less pluralist view of religion. He had thought about it just enough that the conversation … [Read more...]
Poached Conversations
Greg West at the Poached Egg website has graciously shared a story of his own personal failure in dialoguing about life's biggest questions. He described his story over Skype and I used the recording to pen this version of the story. He has reviewed it and confirmed its accuracy. The Story Dolores (not her real name) was a friend of Greg's. Though she and her husband were … [Read more...]
But… you're so reasonable!
This is an absolutely priceless story submitted by a reader. Names and details have been deliberately altered / removed, but it is not difficult to imagine a conversation like this taking place at just about any College or University in any Western nation. What may be difficult to image is the conversation turning out as well as it did. … [Read more...]