Peace Talks Podcast

Gregory Thompson

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Gregory Thompson’s Peace Talks episode is both hard-hitting and thoughtful. He tackles why the dinner table is the BEST place for political conversations and why the church is the best place for cultivating the moral skill of discernment needed for such topics. Don’t miss this one!
 

Gregory Thompson is a writer, artist, cook, and creative leader who works at the intersection of contemplative, the critical, and the convivial. He currently serves as Co-Founder and Creative Director of Voices Underground, a team of scholars, artists, and activists devoted to racial healing through storytelling. He is author of The Welcome Table, a column on Hospitality and Culture at Comment Magazine, of Blood From the Ground: Racial Healing and Public Memory (forthcoming), and co-author of the award-winning Reparations: A Christian Call to Repentance and Repair. He holds an MA and a PhD from the University of Virginia, and can most likely be found in the kitchen.

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“The dinner table is the primary place we need to be having [difficult] conversations. We’re made for life together and all things happen in the context of mutual nourishment. I hope that Christians will learn the practice of embedding the critical, which is about struggling for justice inside the convivial, which is about the commitment.”

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