Healing Political Divisions in the Pews

The Assignment with Audie Cornish

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News Commentary, News, Politics

4.6 • 844 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

During these divisive times, political fault lines are everywhere – including among members of the same church. So for people who live, work, and worship in divided spaces, what have they learned about how to communicate with people they love but don’t seem to understand? Audie sits down with Pastor Rich Villodas of New Life Fellowship in Queens. They talk about “God, Politics, and the Church,” what division – and listening – looks like, why criticisms of candidate and party feel so personal, and why he’s welcoming people – no matter who they’re voting for – in 2024. Pastor Villodas is the author of several books, including: Good and Beautiful and Kind: Becoming Whole in a Fractured World. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I was listening to some of your messages the other day.
0:02.5	Yes, hi. I have actually twofold.
0:06.3	An assignment and it's based on...
0:08.4	And there was one from Sherry in Sacramento, and it kind of caught my ear
0:13.3	because it was in response to our conversation about what Donald Trump wants to do
0:18.1	if he gets voted back into the White House.
0:20.3	I was very disheartened, to say the least.
0:24.4	And my assignment is why so many minorities, black, Latinos, whomever, support Donald Trump.
0:34.8	I mean, geez, the man is a racist, misogynistic pig.
0:38.3	I'm sorry.
0:40.3	Why would you support him?
0:42.3	I don't understand that.
0:44.3	It's almost like you're going against your community.
0:48.3	Now that last part is really interesting to me
0:50.3	because there are so many people who talk this way,
0:53.3	who are especially
0:54.3	struck by how deeply committed Trump voters can be. In 2016, when Donald Trump was the candidate,
1:02.9	I personally could not imagine Christians voting for the guy because of his character,
1:09.9	these these things. And so when I began to say, offer critiques about Donald Trump, I found significant resistance.
1:21.0	And not just resistance, it was almost like I was attacking them at a deep center.
1:25.2	And they look for all kinds of reasons for why that might be.
1:28.9	And so for people who live and work on political fault lines,
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