Footsteps from the Past
Miami Book Fair 2022
November 13, 2022- November 20, 2022
Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus (Miami, FL)
God Squad | Wanted: A few civic heroes
Airdate: October 6 2022 In celebration of The Village Square’s determination this year to celebrate what’s working and worth emulating (in a world in which much seems broken). God Squad will kick off their 13th season thinking about our fellow humans who have behaved heroically during these challenging times. But—beware—one’s hero might be the other’s villain in these divisive “us or them” times. If we can’t agree, we’ll imagine what
2022 October – “Broadcasting Hope” Media Grant Awards
Awarded $200,000 to six projects.
Dr. Robb Willer, “How to Have Better Political Conversations” (or “Ending this Zombie Apocalypse”)
Airdate: September 22 2022 Dr. Robb Willer of the Polarization and Social Change Lab at Stanford University has been working on understanding the moral underpinnings of this accelerating anger—and his research shows that we’re speaking different languages. Our conversation makes Robb, a movie buff, think of zombie apocalypse movies, and wonder if we’re acting just a little too much like “foot soldiers in the army of the undead” in the
2022 September – Community Project Grant Awards
Awarded $41,600 to six projects.
Created Equal Presents: Neil Phillips “Race to Truth”
Airdate: September 8 2022 “One day, here in America,” said Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, “I hope that we will see this and we will become one big family of Americans.” More than 50 years and King’s death, it is an aching American tragedy that we find ourselves with issues of race, arguably, as emotional, divisive and consequential as in King’s time. The “Created Equal” series launched to address this
A Great Escape
Award-Winning Author Lauren Groff and Book + Bottle Discuss Her Recent Novels, Best Wine and Book Pairings
7 Deadly Sins: The Decline of Moral Community and the Rise of Public Corruption
Airdate: August 2022 There is perhaps nowhere in our civic debate where the conversation has grown so calcified as the one about morality. Why don’t liberals seem to care about moral behavior and the moral communities that support it? Why don’t conservatives seem to care about rampant public corruption at the heart of our political system? If we care about doing the right thing, can’t we care about both? Retired
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