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.

Podcasting since 2025 • 58 episodes

Living On Common Ground

Latest Episodes

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...

September 25, 2026 • 45:07

Peter or Paul

Everything feels like it comes with a team jersey now, even your faith, your politics, and your friendships. We start there because we’re tired of a world that demands you pick a side and stay there, and we’re trying to practice something harde...

September 10, 2026 • 49:24

Common Ground On College Football

College football is starting to feel less like a tradition and more like a marketplace, and we’re not sure what to do with that. We’re two friends from different worldviews a progressive Christian and a conservative atheist trying to stay close...

August 27, 2026 • 40:16

Before You Get A Face Tattoo

The world keeps daring us to pick a side, then punishes us for talking to anyone across the line. We push back with a simple question: what if the people we’re told to avoid are the ones who can actually hold us up? As a progressive Christian a...

August 06, 2026 • 45:21

Throw The Cooler Or Jump In

A teen lifeguard fights through heavy surf and pulls a kid to safety, and the clip goes viral for a reason: it hits that raw place in all of us that wants to move toward danger when someone is drowning. But then the headlines shift to warnings,...

July 30, 2026 • 48:08