Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
We're wondering if the secret to a healthy America is to… wait for it… put "America Fourth!" Perhaps too much of our lives are now wrapped up in this life or death, us v. them struggle for us to be happy people. According to political scientist Eitan Hersh, this is making us insufferable "political hobbyists" (vox.com/2020/3/11/21172064/politics-is-for-power-eitan-hersh-the-ezra-klein-show) who need to get a life? What if we can rediscover other higher loves — faith, family, art, travel, Star Wars trivia, whatever floats your particular boat. And in finding our loves again, maybe we even find each other?
Facilitated by Pastor Latricia Scriven of St. Paul's United Methodist Church — God Squad is on it.
Learn more about the program and meet the God Squad here (villagesquare.us/event/america-fourth/) .
The Village Square is a proud member of The Democracy Group (democracygroup.org/) , a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it.
Funding for this podcast was provided through a grant from Florida Humanities (floridahumanities.org/) with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities (neh.gov/) . Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of Florida Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.
We're wondering if the secret to a healthy America is to… wait for it… put "America Fourth!" Perhaps too much of our lives are now wrapped up in this life or death, us v. them struggle for us to be happy people. According to political scientist Eitan Hersh, this is making us insufferable "political hobbyists" (vox.com/2020/3/11/21172064/politics-is-for-power-eitan-hersh-the-ezra-klein-show) who need to get a life? What if we can rediscover other higher loves — faith, family, art, travel, Star Wars trivia, whatever floats your particular boat. And in finding our loves again, maybe we even find each other?
Facilitated by Pastor Latricia Scriven of St. Paul's United Methodist Church — God Squad is on it.
Learn more about the program and meet the God Squad here (villagesquare.us/event/america-fourth/) .
The Village Square is a proud member of The Democracy Group (democracygroup.org/) , a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it.
Funding for this podcast was provided through a grant from Florida Humanities (floridahumanities.org/) with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities (neh.gov/) . Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of Florida Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.
