How to Build a Community of People of Different Backgrounds

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When i was teaching at cornell law school, there were not many conservative, evangelical faculty members. It's incredibly important to build a community where the minority viewpoint feels welcome. So in other words, you don't have to be 50 50 in a room to really provide a tap the brakes on radicalization.

This week David and Curtis offer a follow up discussion on fundamentalism, clarifying some key points from the previous episode and diving deeper into how we can become fundamentalists without even knowing it! Do our increasingly homogenous social groups perhaps push us toward fundamentalism and even radicalization? How might the presence of even a few diverse voices impact these groups? This then leads to a discussion about liberal democracy and how it is under assault, not just globally (as in Russia/Ukraine), but even here in the US. How should our Christian faith inform things like our system of government and our embrace (or rejection) of liberal democracy?

Show Notes:

-Cass Sunstein - The Law of Group Polarization

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