Ep. 102: Keeping the Faith and Living Together in a Polarized Age, with Leonard McMahon, Pacific School of Religion

Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast

Apr 14 2025 | 00:47:01

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Show Notes

We welcome back to our podcast a former guest, Leonard McMahon, who is an assistant professor of pastoral care, spirituality, and political theology at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, and also founder and CEO of Common Ground Dialogue, a political consulting firm specializing in facilitating conversation around complicated social issues, bringing together divergent communities. Leonard is the Faith and Imagination lecturer at BYU this semester, and he will be speaking to us about peacebuilding, a spiritual practice and also a vital but endangered art in our fractious, polarized age.

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