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You don’t believe someone because you don’t have enough doubt. You believe them because you don’t feel the doubts are enough. -Malcom Gladwell

As a society, we couldn’t exist if we were suspicious of everybody all the time. So we default to believing the best about others, even when we shouldn’t. This conversation with pastor and church planter Lisa Clements* is inspired by Talking to Strangers: What You Should Know about the People You Don’t Know by Malcom Gladwell. Lisa talks about leaning into the Holy Spirit and asking the “next question” when we have a hunch that something isn’t quite right. Will we have the courage to let things get uncomfortable for the sake of the greater good? She also has some interesting things to say about navigating the vestiges of the Billy Graham rule and whether or not Christians should be reading banned books.

Resources Mentioned & Affiliate Links:*

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Trixie Belden (Book 1) by Julie Campbell

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle

DaVinci Code by Dan Brown

Talking to Strangers: What You Should Know about the People You Don’t Know by Malcom Gladwell

Influence Podcast with Dr. JoAnn Butrin: “Normalize Men and Women Working Together.”

Better Together: How Men and Women Can Heal the Divide and Work Together to Transform the Future by Danielle Strickland

Chi Alpha/Christianity Today article

*Follow Lisa’s ministry at North Dallas Assembly.***YPRB may receive a tiny commission on purchases made through the links on this page, which helps support the podcast!

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