Living On Common Ground
Does it feel like every part of your life is divided? Every scenario? Every environment? Your church, your school, your work, your friends. Left, right. Conservative, liberal. Religious, secular. From parenting styles to school choice, denominational choice to governing preference, it seems you're always being asked to take a side.
This is a conversation between a progressive Christian and a conservative atheist who happen to be great friends. Welcome to Living on Common Ground.
Living On Common Ground
Latest Episodes
Cigars, PBR, And Cultural Christianity
Your life can feel like it’s been chopped into teams: church and work, left and right, religious and secular. We sit down as two close friends who do not line up the same way, and we start where real life actually starts, at home. The empty nes...
Compost Me Into A Legacy
What would you want your body to become after you die: ashes, a grave, or something that keeps feeding the living? We dig into a surprising end-of-life planning option that’s gaining ground in the US: human composting, also known as natural org...
AARP, Traffic Cones, And The Petty Spiral
A stranger yelling in traffic shouldn’t matter, yet it can light up something primal in us. We start there and follow the thread all the way into the bigger problem: a divided culture where anger feels not only normal, but expected. As a progre...
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