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Jesuitical

Interfaith work is crucial to overcoming our country’s divisions. Ep. 156

Jesuitical

America Media

News, News Commentary, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

By the time you listen to this episode, we may already know who the 46th president of the United States will be. But whoever wins, there is one thing we can say with certainty now: We remain a divided country. So this week, we wanted to talk to someone who has been working across divisions for over a decade: Dr. Eboo Patel. In 2002, Eboo founded the Interfaith Youth Core, an organization that works with colleges, governments and social service agencies to increase interfaith cooperation. He also served on President Barack Obama’s inaugural Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships. Eboo believes that it is impossible to understand what is happening in our world—and in the 2020 election—without paying attention to and engaging with people’s diverse religious commitments. We ask Eboo what lessons he has learned from his interfaith work that might help us to heal the fractures of our body politic. With the election results very much still up in the air at recording time, we decided it didn’t make a lot of sense to try to read the signs of the times this week. But stick around after the interview for our (non-election related) Consolations and Desolations. A reminder that we are discussing Pope Francis’ latest encyclical, “Fratelli Tutti,” in reading groups (over drinks) with all members of our Patreon community throughout the month of November. Even if you missed the first meeting, there’s still time to sign up to support the show and guarantee a spot in the reading group.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.2

Join us and be the of America Meats. Hello and welcome to Jesuitical, a podcast by the Young Hip and Lay editors of American

0:54.8

Media that lay part means we aren't Jesuits but we work with them.

0:58.6

Join us each week for a smart Catholic take on faith culture in the news, often over drinks. I'm Ashley

1:04.3

McKinless and I'm joined by Zach Davis. Hello Ashley and hello future

1:08.0

listeners in the future. I hope you know who the president is because we do not.

1:11.6

No we are recording this at 2.30 PM on Wednesday,

1:16.1

the day after the election,

1:17.8

when we still do not know who is going to get to 270.

1:22.4

No, we don't. And so that's going to get to 270. No, we don't.

1:23.8

And so that's going to impact the way the show looks a little bit.

1:27.3

But first, we wanted to start with what we're drinking right now.

1:31.6

Yeah, coffee.

1:32.4

Yeah, coffee right now.

1:33.3

There were definitely I had a bourbon in one glass

1:35.8

and coffee in the other last night.

1:37.5

Same.

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