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Hey, everyone. It's Sophia.

Welcome to Work in Progress.

Welcome to Work in Progress.

Today, I'm going to practice what I preach as I'm on my own ever-evolving path to being able to hold more dialectics simultaneously, more things to be true at the same time, even when they feel

oppositional. It's no secret for my listeners that I really believe that creating a world

for all of us is the most important thing we can do in our lifetime. And I get pretty active about the systems

and organizations that I think want to take us backwards. And in trying to figure out how

we build a bigger, broader coalition for good and how we welcome people who want to leave

circles of harm and show up for circles of care. I have really been working on figuring out

how to do that in my own life. And through someone that I really cherish and love in the movement for justice, I met somebody

that a few years ago I probably wouldn't have hung out with for a conversation.

I was introduced to a young woman named Carter Brown.

Carter comes from deep evangelical MAGA world.

She is in her own world's sorry for being, but was a Donald Trump voter.

She really came from an environment that told her that this was a political path that

overlapped with righteousness.

And in recent years, she's begun deconstructing.

I have a best friend Jed who is a deconstructed evangelical.

My friend Monty Mayter, who you all see me share a lot

is an incredible woman leading in that space.

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