Articles by Persuasion

If the will of God is certain, do our daily actions matter? Erin and Hannah explore the role of destiny and free will in this episode of Persuasion.

Erin and Hannah explore various ways we respond to our own mistakes and failures.

What stories do we tell others about ourselves? What stories do we inherit? Erin and Hannah discuss in this episode of their fall series.

We cannot escape our connections to others and the way these connections shape who we are and who we will become.

How we react to suffering—our own and others’—reveals much about what we truly believe.

Ambition sways and fools us into believing that our motives for success are pure.

Erin Straza and Hannah Anderson dig into what we’ve gotten wrong about Frankenstein and how the author’s life shaped the work.

If you’ve ever felt like an imposter when it comes to be well-read, this conversation is for you.

Erin and Hannah invite Adam Gustine to help us learn how to show up in our communities in ways that expand the common good.

Erin and Hannah invite Rebecca McLaughlin to help us learn how to show up in conversations despite our differences.

Erin and Hannah invite Rachel Pieh Jones to help us learn how to show up in real relationship despite our differences.

We’re heading back to the office, back to school, back to our faith communities. But after a year away, are we ready to show up?

What’s the point of pursuing healing when it doesn’t seem to last? Erin and Hannah discuss in the finale to the Finding Common Ground series.

Do we bother making plans when they are likely to get turned inside out anyhow? Do we let chaos reign and become accustomed to the wild ride of life?

We’re taking a brief Interlude from our larger series, Finding Common Ground, and Hannah reads an excerpt from her recently released book.

What can the rule of adaptation teach us about each other? Erin and Hannah continue their Finding Common Ground series with a discussion about our shared survival instinct.