How Can Christians Persuade Others That Faith Has Equal Epistemological Footing With Empirical Knowledge?

Epistemology is the theory of how we know things and this has a long history going back through the Middle Ages. In Christian terms faith is not a thing in itself, it's about information which is coming in to me being able to see out. The question of what happens when you put faith into the middle of that is awkward because people can have faith in all sorts of things.