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I think I had randomly called Hannah, and this is the second semester of our

first year, and we somehow started to talk about theology, and this is a time

where I really wasn't understanding my queerness. It was very, very new to me,

and so I was really struggling, and I knew that how I grew up in church I was

connected to, like was not gonna accept that, and so to put it all in a very

blunt way, like Hannah was saying that I was going to hell, and like people who

were queer were going to hell, and so for me that just rocked everything, because

my best friend, it felt like she hated me from then on out, and I was just like,

well, now what?

Even our closest relationships suffer conflicts and breakdowns, and sometimes those

riffs are because of differences in how we see the world. What can we do to

bridge those divides and reconnect, even with people who seem very different from

us? Welcome to the Science of Happiness. I'm David Cuman Kim, a professor of

religious studies and American studies, and a visiting scholar at the Center

on Comparative Equality at UC Berkeley's Law School. I'm filling in for

Daker Keltner this week. Our guest today became best friends in high school. The

common bond was their shared pedocostal faith, but when they went off to college,

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