18: The Future of Community
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🗓️ 5 April 2021
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Host Reed Galen is joined by Lincoln Project Senior Advisor Stuart Stevens to discuss the future of building community in our nation through the lens of a recent Gallup poll, which reports that house of worship membership in the United States has dropped below 50% for the first time since 1937 (when Gallup began following this trend). Plus, how can the Lincoln Project community best mobilize for the 2022 midterm elections.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Rie Gaillin. Today I'm joined by |
| 0:13.1 | Senior Advisor to the Lincoln Project, an author of It Was All Lie, Stuart Stevens. |
| 0:17.9 | Stu, thanks for joining me. Great to be here man, thanks. So before we get to our discussion today, |
| 0:23.8 | and we're taping on Friday evening, I just want to send a moment of thought and sadness out to |
| 0:31.3 | the Capitol Police Officer who was killed in the attack on the building today and on his counterpart |
| 0:37.3 | who was injured. As we still think about the events of January 6th and the loss of life there, |
| 0:43.2 | not only the officer that was killed on that day, but the two officers who have subsequently |
| 0:47.3 | taken their lives, we cannot thank those men and women enough who protect not only the Capitol |
| 0:52.8 | Building, but all of us every day. And that we should remember Thomas Jefferson's words that the |
| 0:58.6 | price of liberty is eternal vigilance. And those officers showed that vigilance today. And we |
| 1:03.7 | are sorry for their loss and certainly for that of their families. But thinking about the concept |
| 1:09.0 | of thoughts and prayers, Stuart Gallup recently reported that for the first time since 1937, |
| 1:15.2 | when they started recording this information, church or religious service attendance by Americans |
| 1:20.9 | has dropped below 50 percent, about 47 percent report going to a church, a synagogue, or a mosque, |
| 1:27.6 | even more striking is that about 25 percent of that drop has come in the last 20 years. And so |
| 1:33.2 | just want to get your sense one of what you think that's about. And then secondly, |
| 1:37.8 | do we think that this is a broader issue of the sort of atomization of society in the United |
| 1:43.8 | States and between Americans is it technology is it politics is it polarization is it all of those |
| 1:49.4 | things. I know you grew up in Mississippi. You probably attended church on a regular basis, |
| 1:54.7 | but why are folks, you know, leaving church? Why are they leaving the temple? Why are they leaving |
| 1:59.0 | the mosque? It's interesting. You're right. When I grew up, my family had been involved in a |
| 2:04.3 | Methodist church. And then when that church at the time refused to integrate, they moved to an |
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