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In 2021-2022 Democrat Bob Rubinyi and Republican Liz Gronert realized that they shared a common concern: The increasing political polarization was having a negative impact on personal relationships and within their congregation, Bet Shalom. Their response was to lead a series of conversations across the partisan line, to support and model constructive dialogue across differences. […]

Nostra Aetate, the “Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions,” was issued by the Second Vatican Council in 1965. Written in the shadow of the Shoah, this brief […]

What have we learned from the past two months of extraordinary federal actions in Minnesota? What are our rights and responsibilities when rule of law is threatened? And where do […]

Make sense of this pivotal moment—what brought us here, and where we might go.