DIY Village Square | stretch your summer reading list

Join our Summer Swim
Against Tribe

Summer is here and we know you have plans – fishing, sunbathing, a summer read or two? Whatever you’re up to, we say you add just one more to-do: “Save the planet by escaping the echo chamber.” Doable, right?

all year | in partnership with
92Y in NYC

Host or Attend a Jefferson Dinner

Early legislators came to work “in the spirit of avowed misunderstanding, without the smallest wish to agree.” Jefferson’s solution? He invited diverse lawmakers to dinner and was widely credited with saving democracy. Maybe we can too?

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Book Club on Race

The Book Club on Race a tool to help diverse people better understand each other. If you’re not sure why that’s important please see the news on any channel and in any newspaper any day of the week.

June 11 @ 6pm | GrassLands

Local Color: Royce Lovett Living Room Concert

The Village Square’s Local Color project teams forces with Motown Gospel recording artist Royce Lovett to gather catalysts from across the community to build bridges instead of walls.

Tallahassee's very own Motown
recording artist Royce Lovett

Royce Lovett presents: The Living Room Series

Hosted by you, featuring Tallahassee’s own Motown recording artist Royce Lovett, The Living Room Series brings groups together together to change the world, one living room at a time. Click to learn more.

Friday, October 12, 2018 @ Noon | Temple Israel | God Squad

The Huddled Masses: Our Moral Compass on Immigration

As consequences continue to reverberate for the U.S. having separated children from their parents at our borders, The God Squad will have a conversation about what our moral duties are to the parents and the children and to the citizens of our democracy relative to immigration. We’re not starting easy.

Friday, November 2, 2018 @ Noon | Good Samaritan UMC | God Squad

Our deepest divide: Can we change the conversation on abortion?

No issue has more deeply and durably divided us than abortion. But that was before The God Squad. What began as a difference of opinion between strangers in letters to the editor, Rabbi Jack Romberg invited Lynda Bell, president of Florida Right to Life and chairman of the board of National Right to Life, to join as God Squad’s special guest.

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Join the Asteroids Club: Common Threats Make Common Ground

The Asteroids Club is an approach to communicating about the civic problems that polarize – and paralyze – us. The concept grew out of the field of moral psychology, which tells us that people are more likely to find common ground when they unite to fight common threats.

Friday, December 7, 2018 @ Noon | St. Thomas More Co-Cathedral | God Squad

Ben Franklin’s virtues

Meets after controversy | Others separate, we gather.

Local Color: Conversations in the fray of democracy

An unflinching, ongoing conversation about the most difficult divisions of our time, between people who don’t look or think alike and believe it’s a deep act of love for country to head straight at it.