Jeremy Courtney - Dreaming for Love and Unity in a Divided World
Dream Big Podcast with Bob Goff and Friends
Bob Goff
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Jeremy Courtney is founder and CEO of Preemptive Love Coalition, a "first in, last to leave" community of peacemakers who provide front lines relief and long-term development in Iraq, Syria, and other areas of polarizing conflict. He is the author of Preemptive Love: Pursuing Peace One Heart at a Time.
Preemptive Love Coalition is regularly featured on CNN, FOX, ABC, NBC, PBS, CBS, Al-Jazeera, the BBC, and in The New York Times and USA Today. Jeremy has written for The Washington Post, TIME, and The Daily Beast.
Jeremy has lived in Iraq with his wife, Jessica, and their two children since the middle of the Iraq War.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody welcome to another episode of the Dream Big |
| 0:11.0 | podcast with Bob Goffin friends I'm Scott Schimmel I Big Podcast with Bob Goff and Friends. I'm |
| 0:12.8 | Scott Schimmel. I'm here with Bob. Hey everybody I hope you're hanging in |
| 0:16.9 | there. It's been a great week. I know it hasn't been for us and I think you're |
| 0:21.5 | really in for a treat today. |
| 0:23.0 | We are in this interesting time. |
| 0:25.0 | That's something that everybody talks about. |
| 0:28.0 | We talk about this on the podcast every week |
| 0:30.0 | from so many different angles. |
| 0:32.0 | I was talking to a friend the other day and he's a smart, wise loving guy, |
| 0:36.4 | but he was mentioning somebody that he knows that has a different opposing viewpoint to him. |
| 0:40.8 | And he made this comment, it stuck out to me, he said, I'm just not going to talk to that guy ever again, if that's what he thinks. |
| 0:47.0 | And it's such a bizarre time in our history where if someone holds a different viewpoint from yours, |
| 0:53.0 | it can feel like they're enemies. |
| 0:56.0 | And I just don't think that's going well for any of us. |
| 0:59.0 | I don't know about you. |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah, we can make some pretty stupid rules up to comfort our relationships. |
| 1:06.1 | And so some of those words never, ever, ever again, I will never. |
| 1:12.2 | And what we're trying to do is understand what's going on us, around us. |
| 1:17.0 | And so what we do is we build these shelves to put people and ideas on. And I think what we need to do is make some new shelves and to say |
| 1:27.0 | this is one I don't understand right now but I'm going to circle back to it and give a little grace. |
| 1:33.4 | And there's a seed or a spark of an idea |
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