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What Good is Perspective-­Taking if No One Changes Their Perspective?

The speakers stood in the free speech quad and were accompanied by towering ten-­foot signs. The signs condemned homosexuality with Bible passages—painted in crimson red—as support. At a progressive public university, they immediately attracted a crowd looking for a verbal fight. The confrontation happened right outside the communication building where I was starting my master’s…
Tim Muehlhoff
December 8, 2025
Interview

Dual Perspectives on Critical Race Theory

In July 2024, Timothy Muehlhoff interviewed Ed Uszynski regarding the role perspective-­taking played in understanding the deep differences between Christian groups and their understanding of Critical Race Theory (CRT) as he researched and wrote his book, Untangling Critical Race Theory.Ed Uszynski, Untangling Critical Race Theory: What Christians Need to Know and Why It Matters (InterVarsity,…
Tim Muehlhoff and Ed Uszynski
December 8, 2025
Poetry and Translation

Poetry for Perspective-Taking

Curated by Tim Muehlhoff Perspective-­taking is entering a person’s viewpoint to understand the moments or experiences that have shaped them. The ancient writer states that a person’s thoughts reside in “deep waters” (Proverbs 20:5 NIV). Poetry is a wonderful way to surface some of those thoughts that are often hard to put into prose. The…
Tim Muehlhoff
December 8, 2025
Poetry and Translation

Exercise in Perspective-­Taking: First Nations Version of the New Testament

The First Nations Version presents the Scriptures through the perspective of Native North American storytellers who view Jesus and biblical truth through their own rich cultural lens and language. “Our priority,” state the editors, “has been to maintain the accuracy of the translation and its faithfulness to the intended meaning of the biblical writers within…
Tim Muehlhoff
December 8, 2025
Blog

Benefits of Lunch Outside the Office: A Response

“Grab drinks?  We don’t even share the same elevators!” For the past five years, in addition to being a professor of communication, I’ve served as co-director of Biola University’s Winsome Conviction Project that seeks to open lines of communication between people entrenched in ideological, political, or theological disagreements.  When I was asked to respond to…
Tim Muehlhoff
February 27, 2025
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From Fear into Faith: How Respectful Conversations Promote Civic Engagement and Hope

Differences of opinion have always been part of life. Spouses, family members, co-workers, neighbors, and church members have had spirited conversations about politics, theology, social issues, and even sports. This is especially true of students in our classes. In one study, college students were asked to keep a journal of how many disagreements with friends…
Tim Muehlhoff and Abby Ferguson
October 25, 2024
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Intolerance and the Riddle of Words

“I don’t understand why Christians have to be so intolerant of others.” I had just finished a moderated discussion on religious pluralism with an articulate professor from another university who argued that all religions and forms of spirituality are equally valid options in today’s diverse world. I agreed that different religions and spiritual practices could…
Tim Muehlhoff
May 28, 2024
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Pushing Back the Animals: Rest for Hurrysick Relationships

Good, but way too busy. Semester’s a little crazy. When can I apply for sabbatical? So much for work/life balance. Hoping things slow down a little. These are responses from colleagues as we pass in the hall and offer a perfunctory, How are you?  We all seemingly bemoan time moving way too quickly – with…
Tim Muehlhoff
October 23, 2023
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Spiritual Battle in the Classroom (part 2)

Zero. That’s the overwhelming response when I ask students to number the sermons they’ve heard on Satan or spiritual battle in the past year. If they are not getting this information from the pulpit, where will students hear about a topic so prevalent in the Scriptures? In the previous blog, we considered the biblical support…
Tim Muehlhoff
May 31, 2023
Blog

Spiritual Battle in the Classroom (part 1)

“Demons, leave my students alone!” I confess, it’s almost as weird to write this, as it was to pray that day in my classroom in front of wide-eyed students. But, why? After all, I was a faith-professing professor lecturing to Christian students at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles (BIOLA) on the topic of gendered…
Tim Muehlhoff
May 30, 2023
Blog

Reclaiming Awe: An Advent Prayer Experiment with My Students

“Are you too comfortable with God?” The speaker’s comment took me by surprise and brought back a flood of emotions. Throughout the years, I’ve often wrestled with balancing the transcendence and intimacy of God. I’m not alone. In the same passage, the psalmist both states God is “the great King above all gods” and “we…
Tim Muehlhoff
November 29, 2022
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Introducing Christian Scholar’s Review’s Summer Themed Issue: Conviction, Civility, and Christian Witness

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world… The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. This famous poem by Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner William Yeats captures the anxieties he felt as he scanned the social horizon of his day. The forces…
Margaret Diddams, Rick Langer, Tim Muehlhoff and Robert H. Woods, Jr.
August 8, 2022
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Introduction to the Theme Issue: Conviction, Civility, and Christian Witness

Rick Langer is the Director of the Office of Faith and Learning at Biola University where he is also Professor of Biblical Studies and Theology and the co-director of the Winsome Conviction Project. His publications have focused on applying theology to a wide variety of disciplines including business leadership, disability, suffering, bioethics, and most recently,…
Rick Langer, Tim Muehlhoff and Robert H. Woods, Jr.
July 15, 2022
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Interview: The Church, the Christian Academy, and the Public Square

Russell Moore is one of the leading Christian voices in the public square today. At the time of this interview, Moore was serving as the President of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, which is the moral and public policy agency of the Southern Baptist Convention. Shortly after this interview, he resigned his position and…
Russell Moore, Tim Muehlhoff and Rick Langer
July 15, 2022
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Interview: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion

In July 2021, Tim Muehlhoff and Rick Langer had a lengthy conversation with Theon Hill, a communications scholar whose research delves into the interface between the Black community and white evangelicalism, writing on the relationship between rhetoric and social change—particularly as related to race, culture, and American politics. He has written on the topic of…
Theon Hill, Tim Muehlhoff and Rick Langer
July 15, 2022