Is Religious Diversity an Important Issue?

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Curtis Rigt has written a book about the role of religious diversity in America. He says it is essential to our character as a nation and we need to revive their significance. The first task is simply to convince people that religious identity and diversity are relevant, he says. "We want to lift up the positive qualities of religion"

This week Eboo Patel, a Muslim pioneer in interfaith work, joins David and Curtis to discuss his book, We Need to Build. They discuss the need to allow people of different faiths to be able to bring their whole selves, including real and significant religious disagreements, to these conversations. Eboo also helps us understand why it is so important to do more than criticize what we don’t like in the culture, but instead to adopt the more mature approach of actually building what we want to see in society.

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-We Need to Build: Field Notes for Diverse Democracy by Eboo Patel

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