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COURSE PODCAST CLIP: Practical Tips for Talking with Post-Abortive Women May 17, 2018

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Every other Wednesday we publish a new episode of the Equipped for Life Podcast, available to everyone who purchases our course, "Equipped for Life: A Fresh Approach to Conversations about Abortion." Generally, these podcast episodes won't be available to the general public, but we plan on releasing short clips from the episodes every Thursday, to give you a sense of what these podcasts are like.

In this episode of the Equipped for Life Course Podcast, Rachel interviews Lori Navrodtzke, a Pregnancy Resource Center counselor and Justice For All volunteer, about how to dialogue with people about abortion if they've already had one.

In this clip, Rachel and Lori discuss how we should proceed in the conversation if we ask someone if they have had a personal abortion experience and they say "no." They also give some examples of how to let people know about post-abortive healing, even if they don't feel like they need it at this time.

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LIVE SPEECH AUDIO: Using Digital Media to Save Lives May 14, 2018

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At the 2018 Students for Life of America Conference, Timothy Brahm gave a never-before-heard speech on social media dialogue. After the presentation, Tim answered some questions from the audience along with Josh Tijerina from Halcyon, another social media presenter at the conference who presented before Tim did. Below are listed some of the different points that he makes in the speech, in case you would like to jump around:

Problems with Conversations on Social Media:

2:27: When people are in fight mode, they can't hear you. It is not just about the arguments.
3:43: Social media conversations are extra challenging because they are public, not private
4:33: Social media breeds hypersensitivity to our own brand management.
6:07: The structure of comment threads work against you.
7:12: The "like" system influences how causal observers perceive your writing through an unfair filter.
8:15: People on social media are almost immune from normal social pressures.
10:07: Recent political hostility has conditioned people to be angry online.
11:03: Social media is structured as an engine for constant outrage.

16 Tips for Social Media Dialogue:

16:08: Move your conversation to private message, Skype, or in person as soon as possible.
17:06: Make minimal persuasion goals.
18:00: Be aware of the lack of nonverbal communication.
18:34: Post things with your pro-choice friends in mind.
19:22: Try hard to assume the best about people.
19:34: Take a step back if you're feeling defensive.
19:57: Point out every piece of common ground.
20:14: Try to only use neutral language.
20:31: Ask lots of clarification questions, make few statements and arguments. Try to wait to do so until the conversation is one-on-one.
20:48: Choose a friendly looking profile picture.
21:17: Don't name-drop philosophers or logical fallacies.
21:36: Don't feed the trolls.
22:08: Use links very sparingly.
22:28: Only cite neutral sources. Do not link to pro-life websites.
22:36: Point out when they teach you something.
23:18: Sow intentional, positive seeds with people who you hope to dialogue with someday.

Q and A with Tim Brahm and the other presenter who spoke before him, Josh Tijerina:

25:25: "When is the appropriate time to use snark in dialogues?"
26:39: "In regards to your point about liking pro-choice friend's comments when you think they are being charitable or gracious in dialogue, do you think that could be misinterpreted or come off as strange to your pro-life friends?"
28:01: "Have you done any studies on the effectiveness of graphic abortion images on social media?"
30:01: "In tip number four, you suggest we post on social media with our pro-choice friends in mind. I am a Christian and this influences my pro-life view, so sometimes I post Christian things or bible verses. What do you think about this?"

Related Links:

Listen to the ERI team tell stories from the SFLA 2018 Conference: http://bit.ly/2F0hRQy

Timothy Brahm: On Virtue Signaling: http://bit.ly/2FuIrSz

Timothy Brahm: Don't Be Too Nice: http://bit.ly/2vPMDX4

Josh Brahm: Don't Name Logical Fallacies: http://bit.ly/2ikWwed

ERI Website: https://EqualRightsInstitute.com

ERI Blog: https://Blog.EqualRightsInstitute.com

ERI Course: https://EquippedCourse.com

COURSE PODCAST CLIP: Social Media Dialogue Part 6: 7 Final Practical Tips for Overcoming the Challenges May 10, 2018

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In this episode of the Equipped for Life Course Podcast, Josh, Tim, and Rachel finish the six-part series on how to be an effective pro-life advocate on social media. They give 7 more practical tips on argumentation.

In these clips, the team gives 2 tips for how to use sources or research studies in online conversations.

ERI Website: https://EqualRightsInstitute.com

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Responding to More Questions About My "Fetus Tunnel Vision" Piece May 07, 2018

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This is the last in a series of three pieces that Josh wrote on the topic of fetus tunnel vision. The first piece defines fetus tunnel vision and gives four arguments for why pro-life people should not have it. The second responds to some concerns and complaints about the piece. And this third piece addresses more questions.

Related Links:

Josh Brahm: Fetus Tunnel Vision: 4 Reasons Pro-Lifers Need to Stop Doing This:http://bit.ly/2FieZz1

Josh Brahm: Responding to Concerns Regarding My "Fetus Tunnel Vision" Piece: http://bit.ly/2r6YaBO

Watch Josh lead a discussion about a meme that a friend and colleague of his distributed right after the Aurora movie theater massacre: https://youtu.be/SNuuKaRqiio

Share the original article: http://bit.ly/2rmJXAQ

ERI Website: https://EqualRightsInstitute.com

ERI Blog: https://Blog.EqualRightsInstitute.com

ERI Course: https://EquippedCourse.com

COURSE PODCAST CLIP: Social Media Dialogue Part 5: 9 More Practical Tips for Overcoming the Challenges May 03, 2018

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In this episode of the Equipped for Life Course, Josh, Tim, and Rachel continue a multi-part series on how to be an effective pro-life advocate on social media. They give 9 more practical tips.

In this clip, the team discusses the sometimes unseen dynamics at play in a conversation and how this should affect our approach. Especially online, we need to remember that people are watching, whether it is in the public comments or in a private message which may be taken in a screenshot and spread publicly.

ERI Website: https://EqualRightsInstitute.com

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ERI Course: https://EquippedCourse.com

ERI Update - April/May 2018 from Denmark! May 02, 2018

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Josh walks around a botanical garden in Denmark and shares about what's been going on behind the scenes at ERI lately:

00:00 - What Josh did in Denmark
13:02 - Why Josh had to completely rework the way we do webinars
17:07 - Speaker training for Rachel and her first speaking tour in Oregon and Pennsylvania
19:35 - Where we're at with the big Equipped for Life Course extension and why it's taking so long
22:02 - Why we're building a video studio instead of renting studio time like we did when we first filmed the course two years ago

ERI Website: https://EqualRightsInstitute.com

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ERI Course: https://EquippedCourse.com

Responding to Concerns Regarding My "Fetus Tunnel Vision" Piece Apr 30, 2018

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The previous audio blog, "Fetus Tunnel Vision: 4 Reasons Pro-Lifers Need to Stop Doing This," was a relatively controversial piece that Josh wrote about 5 years ago. Some people loved it, some hated it, and some had really good questions. Josh ended up writing 2 follow-up pieces responding to the concerns and questions he was seeing as he publicly engaged people on this issue. This is the first.

Related Links:

Josh Brahm: Fetus Tunnel Vision: 4 Reasons Pro-Lifers Need to Stop Doing This:http://bit.ly/2FieZz1

Purchase The Sex Slave Murders: The True Story of Serial Killers Gerald & Charlene Gallego by R. Barri Flowers: https://amzn.to/2Hxs5gB

Timothy Brahm: On Virtue-Signaling: http://bit.ly/2FuIrSz

Share the original article: http://bit.ly/2r6YaBO

ERI Website: https://EqualRightsInstitute.com

ERI Blog: https://Blog.EqualRightsInstitute.com

ERI Course: https://EquippedCourse.com

COURSE PODCAST CLIP: Social Media Dialogue Part 4: 12 More Practical Tips for Overcoming the Challenges Apr 26, 2018

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In this episode of the Equipped for Life Course Podcast, Josh, Tim, and Rachel continue a multi-part series on how to be an effective pro-life advocate on social media. They give 12 more practical tips.

In this clip, Josh introduces an idea from game theory, Rapoport's rules. He talks about the value of the third rule: recognize when the other person teaches you something.

ERI Website: https://EqualRightsInstitute.com

ERI Blog: https://Blog.EqualRightsInstitute.com

ERI Course: https://EquippedCourse.com

Fetus Tunnel Vision: 4 Reasons Pro-Lifers Need to Stop Doing This Apr 23, 2018

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Here at ERI we like to help pro-life people not be weird. About 5 years ago, a Students for Life staff person reached out to Josh asking for an example of a weird thing pro-life people do. The first thing that came to his mind was what we call fetus tunnel vision.

This was something Josh had been thinking about for years. In the first several years after 9/11, every time the anniversary came around he would see a lot of pro-life people posting on social media comparing the number of people who died on 9/11 to the number of babies aborted every day. This article and the following in the series explain why this is a bad idea.

Related Links:

Watch an interview of a survivor of sex slavery describing the hell of her experience: http://youtu.be/tdzQMmL_bZE

Learn about the term "abortion juke": http://bit.ly/2Hl1P4Y

Watch me lead a discussion about a meme that a friend and colleague of mine distributed right after the Aurora movie theater massacre: https://youtu.be/SNuuKaRqiio

Listen to Part 2 and a bonus discussion (#155: Is it Wise to Make Comparisons to the Aurora Movie Theater Shooting? - PART 2 and BONUS: Post-Episode Discussion from #154–155): https://apple.co/2qRhylj

Share the original article: http://bit.ly/2Fgx00M

ERI Website: https://EqualRightsInstitute.com

ERI Blog: https://Blog.EqualRightsInstitute.com

ERI Course: https://EquippedCourse.com

COURSE PODCAST CLIP: Social Media Dialogue Part 3: 7 Practical Tips for Overcoming the Challenges Apr 19, 2018

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In this episode of the Equipped for Life Course, Josh, Tim, and Rachel continue a multi-part series on how to be an effective pro-life advocate on social media. In this episode, they begin a series of 35 practical tips in five categories.

In this clip, Tim explains why we should be trying to make minimum persuasion goals when we dialogue on Facebook. Josh makes an important point about posting comments with a lot of text.

ERI Website: https://EqualRightsInstitute.com

ERI Blog: https://Blog.EqualRightsInstitute.com

ERI Course: https://EquippedCourse.com

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