Middle of the Room Conversations
By Pedro Silva. Reposted from AllSides. As I sat in the front row of Second Baptist Church of Boulder, Colorado waiting to be called up to join my fellow panelists,…
A Parish Administrator’s Perspective on Civil Disagreement
By Bruce Friesen. Reposted from AllSides. I used to think I knew what I stood for, what my make up as a person was. As the years go by, I’ve…
Living Room Conversations for Inclusive Campus Environments
By Jessica Shryack. Reposted from AllSides. Minnesota has some of the worst gaps in educational attainment in the country. That’s not really news anymore. What may be news to people…
We’re hosting monthly conversation events. You’re invited!
Join us for our first round of monthly video Living Room Conversations events! We are excited to be adding these monthly conversations as a staple of our mission to help…
Righteousness and Relationships
By Serena Witherspoon. Reprinted from Huffington Post. I am of a mixed racial background. My mom is a white first-generation American and spent a large chunk of her adolescence being raised…
Perhaps Americans are More Willing to Change Than We Think
By Erik Fogg. Reprinted from Huffington Post I've personally been an advocate of ranked choice voting for some time. This is due in large part to the fact that I…
Being in the Season of Respect and the Presence of Civic Hope
By Cheryl Graeve, National Community Organizer, National Institute for Civil Discourse. Reprinted from Huffington Post. If you open your ears and listen quietly, if you set your eyes to look for…
Affordable Housing and the American Dream
By Joan Blades, Founding Partner, Living Room Conversations. Reprinted from Huffington Post. Last month I was part of a community Living Room Conversation event about affordable housing at the Peninsula JCC in Silicon Valley, a…
Preserving and Protecting Our Precious Civic Ecosystem
By Jacob Z. Hess, Ph.D. Reprinted from Huffington Post. Lots of attention is going today to physical habitat under siege (and for good reason): without more attention, many of these beautiful…
Affordable Housing: Listening to Understand
By Joan Blades, Founding Partner, Living Room Conversations & Rabbi Lavey Derby, Director of Jewish Life, PJCC. Reprinted from Huffington Post. According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban…