Graceful Conversations: Building Arcs across Divided Perspectives: Additional Resources

MPR News' Talking Sense Series focused on How to Have Hard Political Conversations, Better.

• How to have hard political conversations, better | MPR News
  • Dec 19, 2023 - with Braver Angels co-founder Bill Doherty

• Talking Sense - How to Have Hard Political Conversations
  • During what promises to be a divisive election year, MPR News and the nonprofit organization Braver Angels have created Talking Sense to help Minnesotans have ...

• Introducing Talking Sense: Have hard political conversations, better ...
  • Feb 6, 2024 ... To launch Talking Sense, MPR News has partnered with Braver Angels, a nonprofit that facilitates civil conversations between people on different ...
• Talking Sense: The roots of political polarization | MPR News
  • Apr 4, 2024 - MPR News host Angela Davis talks through the first in-person discussion and workshop from Talking Sense and Braver Angels.

• Talking Sense: Skills for disagreeing respectfully across political ...
  • Jun 5, 2024 - with Bill Doherty, co-founder of Braver Angels, moderates an MPR News Talking Sense event hosted by the University of Minnesota Rochester

• Talking Sense: Navigating relationships across political divides ...
  • Sept 4, 2024 - with Braver Angels COO and ambassador Barbara Thomas and Braver Angels ambassador and Thomas' husband Rick ...

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PBS NEWS HOUR

America at a Crossroads with Judy Woodruff

In "America at a Crossroads with Judy Woodruff," a PBS NewsHour special, the PBS NewsHour's Judy Woodruff traces the roots of our divisions, exploring recent American political history, how partisan divisions became more personal, the impact it’s having on the country’s ability to deal with real challenges and the implications for a coming election year.

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Starts With Us is a growing movement equipping people worldwide to overcome toxic polarization and solve the world's toughest problems. They do this by illuminating the causes and effects of toxic polarization, demonstrating the power of citizens working together across lines of difference, and activating Builders from all walks of life with the skills to become more effective problem solvers.

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Award-winning [formerly MPR] journalist, Michelle Norris, began The Race Card Project out of an interest to encourage all people to share their stories about their experience of race in America. The format can be and has been used to express ourselves on a variety of issues. Sharing stories is the beginning of depolarization. [See her book, Our Hidden Conversations (below), too!]

RACE. IDENTITY.

YOUR THOUGHTS.

6-WORDS.

PLEASE SEND.

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The Heart of Debate: Imagining a faith and politics of neighborly love

DIANA BUTLER BASS

September 10, 2024

'In many ways, faith and politics are alike in good ways and troublesome ones. Ideally, however, they are both grounded in love for others...

At their best, religion and politics are twinned matters of the heart — directing us toward both ultimate and earthly concerns that serve a greater good.

The heart is, of course, what is forgotten on social media and in the media flood. Mostly forgotten by politicians themselves. Woefully forgotten in our churches and synagogues. Politics is presented to us, in [Parker] Palmer’s words, as technical, strategic, partisan, and polarizing...

What we need are sturdy hearts and courage. Persistent, insistent love.'

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