Curious Over Furious: Finding Common Ground In Hard Conversations | Corey Nathan
5/20/20261 hr
The world is more divided now than ever. Hard conversations are even harder to get into these days, and it is quite easy to get hostile to people who are not on your side. Corinna Bellizzi explores what it takes to heal these huge divides in society with Corey Nathan, host and producer of Talkin' Politics & Religion Without Killin' Each Other. Together, they discuss how to get centered with our values, ethics, and unique humanness to bridge the chasms in our political and religious spaces. Corey explains what it means to harden yourself in this age when fear-mongering and lying have become so commonplace, how to remain open and curious, and how to fix the brokenness of the world one degree at a time.
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About Guest:
Corey Nathan is the host and producer of "Talkin' Politics & Religion Without Killin' Each Other," a podcast dedicated to bridging deep divides through honest, good-humored conversation. His path to this work is personal: raised in an observant Jewish household, he became a born-again Christian in his late 20s, navigating some of the hardest conversations imaginable with family and community. That experience became a calling. An entrepreneur with businesses ranging from executive search to the service sector to podcast production, Corey now focuses primarily on helping people across religious, political, and social divides actually listen to one another. His podcast is part of The Democracy Group, a network of shows working to repair civic culture.
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Show Notes:
02:30 - The Costs Of Not Having Hard Conversations
16:26 - Bridging The Gap Of Religious Divides
21:22 - Preserving What Makes Us Uniquely Human
35:07 - Finding A Common Ground Despite Disagreements
42:56 - The Immense Power Of “Tell Me More”
54:05 - Approach Hard Topics One Degree At A Time
55:05 - Discussion Wrap-up And Closing Words
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First 90 secondsCorinna Bellizzi· Host0:00
Just be encouraged. I mean, it's so tempting to fall into a sense of daily despair, but we've been talking about ways that we can develop practices of overcoming our own calluses, and maybe don't start with the equivalent of a 300-pound bench press in terms of engaging with others we disagree with, but just one pushup maybe, the rhetorical equivalent of one pushup. So somebody who voted differently on a proposition than you did as opposed to president, and just one degree at a time. That's the concept I, I wanna lean into, and it's a practice. It's a practice. It's not a solution, a one shot is gonna fix it all. It's a daily moment-to-moment practice.
Corey Nathan· Guest0:42
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