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In this episode, we welcome back David French, columnist for The New York Times , former constitutional attorney, and author of Divided We Fall . We discuss the current state of American democracy, the challenges of political division, and how we can engage in civil discourse despite deep ideological differences. David also shares a personal update on his family and reflects on the profound trials and growth that come with adversity. 📌 What We Discuss: ✔️ How David and his family navigated the challenges of a serious health crisis. ✔️ The rise of political polarization and the factors driving it. ✔️ Why distinguishing between “unwise, unethical, and unlawful” is crucial in analyzing political actions. ✔️ How consuming different perspectives (even opposing ones) helps in understanding political dynamics. ✔️ The role of Christian values in politics and how they are being redefined. ⏳ Episode Highlights 📍 [00:01:00] – David French’s background and his journey from litigation to journalism. 📍 [00:02:30] – Personal update: David shares his wife Nancy’s battle with cancer and their journey as a family. 📍 [00:06:00] – How to navigate personal trials while maintaining faith and resilience. 📍 [00:10:00] – The danger of political paranoia and the pitfalls of extreme polarization. 📍 [00:18:00] – The "friend-enemy" paradigm in American politics and its influence in Christian fundamentalism. 📍 [00:24:00] – Revisiting Divided We Fall : How America’s divisions have devolved since 2020. 📍 [00:40:00] – The categories and differences of unwise, unethical, and unlawful political actions. 📍 [00:55:00] – The balance between justice, kindness, and humility in political engagement. 📍 [01:00:00] – The After Party initiative: A Christian approach to politics focused on values rather than policy. 💬 Featured Quotes 🔹 "You don't know who you truly are until your values are tested." – David French 🔹 "If we focus on the relational, we can have better conversations even across deep differences." – Corey Nathan 🔹 "Justice, kindness, and humility—if you're missing one, you're doing it wrong." – David French 🔹 "The United States has a history of shifting without repenting. We just move on." – David French 📚 Resources Mentioned David French’s Writing: New York Times David’s Book: Divided We Fall The After Party Initiative – More Info Advisory Opinions Podcast (with Sarah Isgur & David French) – Listen Here 📣 Call to Action If you found this conversation insightful, please: ✅ Subscribe to Talkin' Politics & Religion Without Killin' Each Other on your favorite podcast platform. ✅ Leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen: ratethispodcast.com/goodfaithpolitics ✅ Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/politicsandreligion ✅ Watch the full conversation and subscribe on YouTube: youtube.com/@politicsandreligion 🔗 Connect With Us on Social Media @coreysnathan: Bluesky LinkedIn Instagram Threads Facebook Substack David French: 🔗 Twitter | BlueSky | New York Times Our Sponsors Meza Wealth Management: www.mezawealth.com Prolux Autogroup: www.proluxautogroup.com or www.granadahillsairporttransportation.com Let’s keep talking politics and religion—with gentleness and respect. 🎙️💡…
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We are CreativeMornings Prague. Our goal is to inspire, to take people out of their daily routine and wake them up, differently, creatively and with love. No matter what field you are in, come to find interesting topics from different perspectives. We serve monthly food for thought, breakfast included. So set your alarm, make space in the calendar and come on down!
Innehåll tillhandahållet av CreativeMornings Prague. Allt poddinnehåll inklusive avsnitt, grafik och podcastbeskrivningar laddas upp och tillhandahålls direkt av CreativeMornings Prague eller deras podcastplattformspartner. Om du tror att någon använder ditt upphovsrättsskyddade verk utan din tillåtelse kan du följa processen som beskrivs här https://sv.player.fm/legal.
We are CreativeMornings Prague. Our goal is to inspire, to take people out of their daily routine and wake them up, differently, creatively and with love. No matter what field you are in, come to find interesting topics from different perspectives. We serve monthly food for thought, breakfast included. So set your alarm, make space in the calendar and come on down!
September 2019 - Bára Vencálková is a young author and poet. She graduated from history and now continues studying philosophy at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. She strives to understand things so she could help others find understanding as well. First and foremost, she is not a woman, but a person and like every person she wants to feel alive. She likes to think, read, run, draw, sing, and most of all, she does what she has always been doing. She writes.…
March 2016 - Zdeněk Lanc is a designer. He had been working for the Czech Television for as long as 14 years as the head of the Design of New Media department. He ran development of first applications for smart televisions and was amused by the teletext phenomenon. Zdeněk started the tradition of sport specials and successful olympic websites such as those from Athens (2004) to Sochi (2014), even though he does not watch much of sports or television.…
December 2020 - Adam is a psychologist at the Psychiatric Hospital Bohnice, where he works with people with personality disorders. He founded the project Therapy among trees (Terapie mezi stromy), which connects nature and mental health. Adam also brings the topic of nature and mental health to the public through his publishing activity.…
August 2016 - Martin Rajniš is one of Czech most renown architects and urbanistic visionary. His projects have been inspired and intertwined with nature, natural materials and principles. He believes that going for WEIRD can lead to amazing things.
November 2020 - This time we decided to be radically different in our form and we decided to bring you not one, two or three, but four speakers! The speakers (introduced below) already honoured us with their talks during our previous mornings and we are curious to know how they are doing now during these turbulent times. Our speakers are: Zuzana Kuberová - the founder of the project called “Z pokoje do pokoje” and one of the three girls behind it. Their aim is to save old furniture from being thrown away by renovating it themselves and giving it a brand new life. Apart from a selling the re-made pieces, they also opened their workshop to the public and use it as a re-use center. Anyone can come, borrow tools and work on their personal projects. Bára Vencálková – a young author and poet. She graduated from history and now continues studying philosophy at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. She strives to understand things so she could help others find understanding as well. First and foremost, she is not a woman, but a person and like every person she wants to feel alive. She likes to think, read, run, draw, sing, and most of all, she does what she has always been doing. She writes. Sebastian James - a Czech psychologist and licensed psychotherapist. In both life and work, he believes in openness, the ability to sense one’s own body, being able to play and being ready to help others. These are also the principles, that his workshops are based on, focusing on long-lasting personal relationships and sustainable happiness in life. His theory of “Radical Honesty” is an answer to a common reality of pretending, which also offers healthier and more entertaining way of life, as Sebastian says. He leads adventure workshops, individual and couple psychotherapy or communication and leadership trainings in the corporate environment. Richard Vrdlovec - first started doing yoga back when he was 10 years old. Then he returned to it with a higher intensity around 2004, while he was working for prestigious consultancy companies and feeling generally stressed. Since that time, he has studied various yoga theories and practices and got inspired by teaching yoga himself. After 2011 he persisted with Buddha’s meditation tradition and in 2016 opened his own studio Yoga Karlín. Together with other experienced instructors, Richard teaches a variety of yoga styles and meditation basics there.…
August 2019 - This month’s lecture will focus on the examination of architecture and urban planning in terms of gender. This allows for uncovering problems of inequality and negligence in urban development. In her lecture, Milota will present the practical examples of gender-sensitive design and planning, the mobility of care in cities abroad, and the possible solutions to the improvement in the quality of Czech and Slovakian urban planning.…
November 2019 - Lukáš Hána is a consultant and a lecturer on critical thinking. He offers training to the public, companies as well as intelligence services. He teaches tools for working with information and decision-making. He is also a founder of the project #krimyš (www.krimys.cz), within which Lukáš organizes an annual conference. He is a creator of the course for creative thinking at the University of Economics in Prague (VŠE) and he currently finished an online course series about critical thinking for Seduo.cz. Lukáš is an alumnus of the Center for Applied Rationality CFAR.…
March 2019 - David Stránský is an Associate Professor in Water Management and Water Structures at Czech technical university in Prague as well as forensic expert in water management. Currently, he deals with the issue of rainfall-runoff relationships in urbanized river basins, specifically the mathematical description of these phenomena, the hydraulic reliability of systems and the integrated assessment of the effect of urban drainage. The city and the people in it need water for their life, but its availability has become taken for granted over the years. Recently, the climate change reminds us of how precious the water is, and makes us think whether today’s urban water management is right or not. You will see that the cities of the future will be substantially different from today’s … from the perspective of man but also the landscape in which it lies.…
May 2020 - Matěj Novák is the first Czech to succeed in the field of big wave surfing, a name used for riding waves above 6 meter height. His love of the ocean led him to move to the Spanish coast, where he founded a community sports club WildHouse. The journey to conquering the famous “La Verdad” wave was documented in a movie “No wave back”. What obstacles did he have to overcome and what did the sea teach him?…
October 2018 - Sebastian is a Czech psychologist and licensed psychotherapist. In both life and work, he believes in openness, the ability to sense one’s own body, being able to play and being ready to help others. These are also the principles, that his workshops are based on, focusing on long-lasting personal relationships and sustainable happiness in life. His theory of “Radical Honesty” is an answer to a common reality of pretending, which also offers healthier and more entertaining way of life, as Sebastian says. He leads adventure workshops, individual and couple psychotherapy or communication and leadership trainings in the corporate environment. Martin is a mentor and presentation skills instructor. He graduated from the Theatrical faculty of AMU in Prague and later also JAMU in Brno. After completing numerous trainings and internships in the Communications field, including Germany, Austria or France, he started lectures and workshops on his own. Since 2001, he trained over 13 500 corporate employees. Martin also led international workshops in Leipzig, Krakow or Birmingham.…
June 2018 - Zuzana is the founder of a project called “Z pokoje do pokoje” and one of the three girls behind it. Their aim is to save old furniture from being thrown away by renovating it themselves and giving it a brand new life. Apart from a selling the re-made pieces, they also opened their workshop to the public and use it as a re-use center. Anyone can come, borrow tools and work on their personal projects.…
Září 2018 - Hostem dalšího dílu cyklu CreativeMornings bude jogín Richard Vrdlovec, který se od jógy podle knížek dopracoval až k vlastnímu studiu Yoga Karlín. Při své praxi se věnuje i základům meditace.
Vojta tells the story of how he started working at Wikipedia and how they inspire the elderly to share their knowledge. Vojtěch is an instructor and methodology specialist at Wikimedia. He was the founder of “Senioři píší Wikipedii”, a project, inspiring the eldery to participate on writing Wikipedia articles. CreativeMornings Prague. Free events like this one are hosted every month in dozens of cities. Discover hundreds of talks from the world's creative community at https://creativemornings.com/talks…
Do you need investment advice? Unfortunately, we can’t tell you the secret of how to become a one-percenter, but we can give you far better advice on how to invest – invest in the change you want to see in the world. Invest in our teachers. The speaker of the February Creative Mornings is Kryštof Vosátka. After his studies in literature at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, he underwent intensive teacher training at the Institute of Education in London. Kryštof also taught at several high schools and gymnasiums. Currently, he manages the cooperation with partners at the Teach Live (“Učitel naživo”) organization, which aims to contribute to the systematic improvement of the Czech education through the direct investment in teachers and headmasters. Kryštof will show us that school is the most important social tool for the development of human potential. In order for schools to fulfill this purpose, it is necessary to focus on people and offer them superb preparation and support in their demanding work. Change is in people and teachers and principals are the key to achieve it. CreativeMornings Prague. Free events like this one are hosted every month in dozens of cities. Discover hundreds of talks from the world's creative community at https://creativemornings.com/talks…
Jano Suchal is the co-founder of Slovensko.Digital and activist in the field of state IT as well as programator, father and former rafter. He studied IT and artificial inteligence and likes to dig into public data. In his free time, Jano started to review state IT contracts and compared them to those of other countries. He was so upset about what he found, that he, along with five other enthusiasts, founded a non-profit called Slovensko.Digital. They have been trying to improve digital service of the state and guard the millions that flow through it. CreativeMornings Prague. Free events like this one are hosted every month in dozens of cities. Discover hundreds of talks from the world's creative community at https://creativemornings.com/talks…
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