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SquareCast: Intellectual Humility in a Polarized World

$SquareCast: God Squad: Shut Up and (Dont) Sing With our culture wars at a full rolling boil, apparently all it takes to send our enmity over the edge is…a good old-fashioned country song?? The furor over Jason Aldeans Try That in A Small Town (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1_RKu-ESCY) (and then theres Oliver Anthonys Rich Men North of Richmond (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqSA-SY5Hro&themeRefresh=1) ) is reminiscent of the old furor over The Dixie Chicks—only the sides have switched up. As The Village Square embarks on a pluralism project to build a hometown where everyone belongs, its possible that round here we take care of our own is a value we should all seek to restore to American civic life, but does it really need to come with all the guns? Well bring The God Squad into this musical fracas (they dove right into this one in our planning meeting), so that they can do their usual thing and go high instead of the usual low. Can we find a place where perhaps we can tolerate each other and just SING? (Dolly Parton has something to say (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QJXsmDBS8k) on that front…) Check out the Try That In A Small Town lyrics (https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jasonaldean/trythatinasmalltown.html) . And the lyrics to Rich Men North of Richmond are here (https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/oliveranthony/richmennorthofrichmond.html) . Joining us for this God Squad are Father Tim Holeda of St. Thomas More Co-Cathedral, Josh Hall of First Baptist Church, Joseph Davis Jr. of Truth Gatherers Community Church, and Rabbi Paul Sidlofsky of Temple Israel. Stefanie Posner of Temple Israel will be facilitating. Meet the God Squad, the brains behind our series God Squad: Improbable conversations for people of faith and no faith at all (because talking politics wasnt hard enough). Joining us for this edition of God Squad: Find bios for our participants and a full program description online here (https://tlh.villagesquare.us/event/just-sing/) . The Village Square is a proud member of The Democracy Group (https://www.democracygroup.org/) , a network of podcasts that examines whats 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 (https://floridahumanities.org/) with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities (https://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.$

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