In this episode we are discussing an idea every student is sure to encounter early and repeatedly during the college years– the idea of “relativism.” My guest is Greg Koukl, co-author of Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air and the Founder/President of Stand to Reason, a great apologetics ministry.

In this podcast we discuss:

• The prevalence of relativism on campus today (often seen as “expressive individualism”)
  
• Some different forms of relativism students will encounter
  
• Greg’s “inside/outside” distinction, which goes back to the Garden of Eden and the Fall
  
• How relativism is related to the idea of “truth”
  
• Why Christians should not talk about “their faith”
  
• Why we can know “that” something is true without knowing “how” it is true
  
• Why no one is actually a relativist, and how to help a “relativist” see this
  
• How to ask good questions as a way to engage in conversations about relativism (and everything else–”gardening” vs. “harvesting”)
  
• Understanding and discussing the new/current definition of “tolerance”
  
• Responding to relativism on campus (with friends, in classes, in papers, etc.)
  
• The importance of finding common ground in conversations
  
• The value of using this dialogical approach to defend all Christian truth claims
  

Resources mentioned during our conversation:

• Greg Kokhl, Street Smarts: Using Questions to Answer Chrisitanity’s Toughest Challenges
  
• J. Warner Wallace, Cold-Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels
  
• Greg Kokhl, The Story of Reality: How the World Began, How It Ends, and Everything Important that Happens in Between
  
• Greg Kokhl, Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions
  
• Francis Schaeffer’s Trilogy
  
• C.S. Lewis, Perelandra
  
• Randy Newman, Questioning Evangelism: Engaging People’s Hearts the Way Jesus Did
  
• Stand to Reason, Greg’s organization
  
• Greg’s podcasts
  

Related College Faith Resources:

• The Reasonableness of Faith: Why Students Should Study Apologetics with Paul Copan (College Faith podcast #25)
  
• How Asking Good Questions Helps Us Succeed with Randy Newman (College Faith podcast 10)
  
• Stan Wallace, “When it Comes to Weinstein et al., No One is a Moral Relativist–And That’s a Good Thing!”