Richard Mao is a leading evangelical educator and thinker.

He is conservative on the charged issue of same-sex marriage,

and he is a leader in challenging his fellow conservative

Christians and the rest of us to civility and humility

in public life.

This hour, as part of the Civil Conversations Project,

we gather his wisdom on navigating fear and the temptation

it brings to distort the truth about those we see as enemies.

The fact that our kids are going to school together,

that we are in the same parking lots.

We are in the same supermarket hild,

we're driving the same freeways.

There's a common life and beneath all of that,

there's something that binds human beings together,

that politics can't create,

and it shouldn't be able to destroy.

We really need to be thinking as people of faith,

how is it that our common life can flourish?

I'm Krista Tippett, on Being, stay with us.

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