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🗓️ 2 August 2024
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1:08 John’s work with Braver Angels
8:16 How Braver Angels gets its business done
13:09 Trying to bridge the partisan divide
20:27 Do some issues require taking sides?
27:37 Braver Angels's approach to the immigration issue
31:37 John: “Trump is more symptom than cause”
38:47 Are some political conflicts unavoidable?
41:38 John: “What we need in America is a ... spiritual transformation in our attitudes toward one another”
50:30 Braver Angels's American Hope Campaign
Recorded on July 25, 2025
Links and Readings
Glenn’s 2020 conversation with John
A Braver Way podcast
Eliza Taylor Hawkins’s report, “Depolarizing During the Pandemic”
Braver Angels’s Trustworthy Elections Report
John’s speech before Braver Angels’s 2023 National Convention
Thomas Sowell’s book, Black Rednecks & White Liberals
Braver Angels’s American Hope Campaign
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0:46.2 | This is Glenn Lowry. |
0:47.2 | You have tuned into the Glenn show. |
0:48.4 | I am with John Wood Jr. |
0:50.6 | And we're gonna have a conversation. |
0:51.9 | John Wood Jr. is National Ambassador |
0:55.0 | for the Braver Angels Project, |
0:59.0 | which he can describe a greater detail |
1:01.0 | and effort to facilitate dialogue across the partisan |
1:04.6 | divide amongst Americans in this time of such division. And they've just |
1:10.6 | had their annual convention and he's a national leader for the organization and we're going to talk about what the organization does and what not. |
1:16.2 | John has been a guest on the Glenn show in the past on several occasions where we've talked about this work, but it's been a while, and so it's good to catch up, John and old friend. |
1:24.9 | Welcome to the Glen Show, John. |
1:27.2 | Glen, it is a pleasure as always. |
1:28.8 | It's great to be back on with you. |
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