Oct 25, 2024
Lost & Found
Our young adults are not OK.
Sep 16, 2024
Church v. State
Turns out high principles about freedom for everyone all at the same time wasn't a piece of cake. After 250-ish years of disagreement, we’re still haggling over the details
Feb 23, 2024
Everyone is Canceled
Everyone is canceled, except God Squad?
Jan 20, 2023
Let Friendship Redeem the Republic
God Squad talks transcendent relationships across the divide. Do you have any?
Nov 4, 2022
Holy Misconceptions, Batman!
Is what we assume about people of other faith even true? We're invoking the cape crusader, and maybe a little boy wonder too.
Oct 14, 2022
Souls to the Polls?
What are the proper lines for religious involvement in politics? And what are the consequences when these lines get crossed?
Sep 16, 2022
Wanted: A few civic heroes.
Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman. NBD.
Apr 29, 2022
The Skeptics Have Their Say
Skeptics is like The Village Square, but earlier in the morning.
Mar 19, 2022
Lonely and Extreme
We have a crisis of loneliness — and it's driving extremism.
Feb 25, 2022
Empathy in the Age of Schadenfreude
A special appearance by The Village Square former chair Rabbi Jack Romberg, author of “A doorway to Heroism: A decorated German-Jewish Soldier who became an American Hero.”
Jan 15, 2022
Spiritual lessons of a pandemic
Can we turn our trauma into a spiritual evolution? Maybe?
Dec 10, 2021
Exhausted with politics?
Most of us have had enough, and that should mean something.
Feb 12, 2021
Cancel Culture
From America's college campuses to the halls of power in Washington, D.C. — you'd better watch what you say.
Feb 12, 2021
IT’S A CONSPIRACY!!!!
America is awash right now in conspiracy theories, a phenomena that thrives when anxiety and isolation is high (uh, now).
Dec 10, 2020
What if the “Good News Club” isn’t good for me or my child?
(But who doesn't like free ice cream after a day in public school?)
Nov 13, 2020
The “religion” of our political extremes
America's hardcore polar political opposites seem to have something striking in common — they evoke a blind, unquestioning faith that feels like religion run amok.
Oct 15, 2020
Our Broken Hearts
We’re going to leave behind all the recriminations about how we got here or whose fault it is for a single golden hour to just be human together.
Sep 25, 2020
Political Tribe + Dissolving community
Measures of connectedness across society are on the decline, and extremism — and violence — is on the rise.