Polarization: Can Faith Make a Difference?

What if the problem isn’t that we disagree—but how we disagree?In this episode of Disagreeing Well: The Podcast About Polarization, I am joined by Kiera Phyo and Jo Alstott from London, England, to talk about the Church of England’s Difference Course, a growing global effort to help people use their faith to navigate deep divides more constructively.The five-session course doesn’t ask people to change their beliefs. Instead, it asks something harder: to stay curious, to truly listen, to reimagine new ways forward and to resist the urge to turn others into “the other.”It sounds simple but it isn’t and the course is designed to lead participants through some challenging exercises to help them adopt practices that are helping people move beyond polarization—not by avoiding hard conversations, but by having them differently.At a time when division feels baked into everything, this is a refreshingly practical and hopeful conversation about an initiative that’s making a “Difference”.For more about the Difference Course see: https://difference.rln.global