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CBS Sunday Morning ran a national segment on Braver Angels’ efforts to bridge the divide by covering a recent workshop in Traverse City, MI.  Click here to watch.

by Adelle M. Banks https://religionnews.com/2022/10/11/pbs-docs-depict-frederick-douglass-and-harriet-tubmans-paths-of-freedom-faith/

An authoritarian fear of difference best explains the intolerance sweeping the Republican Party. By Conor Friedersdorf https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/what-if-left-was-right-race/595777/

by Chris Jones and Doug Pagitt https://www.newsweek.com/we-cant-pray-away-christian-nationalism-weve-got-vote-it-out-opinion-1747208

Equal numbers of Conservatives and Liberals take a deep dive into a chosen issue to find joint and unanimously held Points of Agreements. Sat, October 15, 2022, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT Join here

by Amy Julia Becker https://mailchi.mp/amyjuliabecker.com/oct22-down-syndrome-awareness-month?e=9ecd4f1a24

from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2022/09/27/ojibwe-author-patty-krawec-writes-about-indigenous-peoples-christians-becoming-kin/ You can also view our interview with Patty here.

They do it with grace and grit, they work across political and religious differences, and they have been doing it for decades. https://religionnews.com/2022/09/30/the-hidden-interfaith-networks-key-to-the-migrant-justice-movement/

by Amanda Udis-Kessler, May 29, 2021; written for the online LGBTQ+ Christian journal Whosoever; updated September 28, 2022 I believe God is that essence in us that reaches out to another, committed to their well-being, their enlightenment, their moral, emotional, relational, and spiritual growth. (Phillip Gulley, Unlearning God, 2018, pp. 193-194) This essay introduces what

by Claire Giangravé https://religionnews.com/2022/09/26/in-hometown-of-st-francis-of-assisi-pope-puts-forward-radical-criticism-of-capitalism/

Virtue signaling is designed to communicate specifically to one partisan tribe and to affirm its moral superiority. A scholar of ethics and politics explains why that is unwelcome in a divided US. by Christopher Beem https://religionnews.com/2022/09/23/why-virtue-signaling-isnt-the-same-as-virtue-it-actually-furthers-the-partisan-divide/

by Adele M. Banks https://religionnews.com/2022/09/16/biden-includes-faith-leaders-in-summits-charge-to-rise-together-against-hate/ “There’s a throughline of hate, from massacres of Indigenous people to the original sin of slavery, terror of the (Ku Klux) Klan, anti-immigration violence against the Irish, Italians, Chinese, Mexicans — so many others laced through our history,” he said in an address at a daylong event called United We

Rather than fixating on the way our adolescents dress and talk – not to mention their paradoxical willingness to use a phone for anything but its original purpose – in this book we will first pay attention to their pain because their pain is a mirror. Malcolm Harris aptly describes the asphyxiating quality of modern

from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2022/09/06/in-learning-our-names-asian-american-christian-authors-reclaim-their-stories/ And you can enjoy our interview with two authors of the book here: https://youtu.be/IkKgNpcnvAI

Altruistic behaviour takes place in a different part of the brain to similar activity to help oneself, new research has found. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2022/scientists-pinpoint-brain-region-responsible-for-effortful-helping-behaviour

from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2022/08/09/new-book-invites-christians-to-rethink-homelessness/ You can also see our interview of the book’s author Kevin Nye (“Grace Can Lead Us Home: A Christian Call to End Homelessness”) here: https://youtu.be/z3AEEVan9gM

British researchers and a team from Google found that teaching people how to spot misinformation made people more skeptical of it. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/technology/google-search-misinformation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Our country’s commitment to bottomless self-interest, manic work schedule, and a structural belief in competition and scarcity as moral imperatives is actually killing us. “Most of us were not taught how to recognize pain, name it, and be with it,” Brene Brown argues. “Our families and culture believed that the vulnerability that it takes to

American business can be a force for finding common ground, but large corporations must now answer to a growing array of stakeholders, who often have opposing views on hot-button issues. In recent years, social media has also forced companies to respond immediately to a variety of conflicting demands. In this episode of Let’s Find Common