Past Events

Oct 25, 2024

Lost & Found

Our young adults are not OK.
Sep 16, 2024

Church v. State

Turns out high principles about freedom for everyone all at the same time wasn't a piece of cake. After 250-ish years of disagreement, we’re still haggling over the details
Feb 23, 2024

Everyone is Canceled

Everyone is canceled, except God Squad?
Jan 20, 2023

Let Friendship Redeem the Republic

God Squad talks transcendent relationships across the divide. Do you have any?
Nov 4, 2022

Holy Misconceptions, Batman!

Is what we assume about people of other faith even true? We're invoking the cape crusader, and maybe a little boy wonder too.
Oct 14, 2022

Souls to the Polls?

What are the proper lines for religious involvement in politics? And what are the consequences when these lines get crossed?
Sep 16, 2022

Wanted: A few civic heroes.

Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman. NBD.
Apr 29, 2022

The Skeptics Have Their Say

Skeptics is like The Village Square, but earlier in the morning.
Mar 19, 2022

Lonely and Extreme

We have a crisis of loneliness — and it's driving extremism.
Feb 25, 2022

Empathy in the Age of Schadenfreude

A special appearance by The Village Square former chair Rabbi Jack Romberg, author of “A doorway to Heroism: A decorated German-Jewish Soldier who became an American Hero.”
Jan 15, 2022

Spiritual lessons of a pandemic

Can we turn our trauma into a spiritual evolution? Maybe?
Dec 10, 2021

Exhausted with politics?

Most of us have had enough, and that should mean something.
Feb 12, 2021

Cancel Culture

From America's college campuses to the halls of power in Washington, D.C. — you'd better watch what you say.
Feb 12, 2021

IT’S A CONSPIRACY!!!!

America is awash right now in conspiracy theories, a phenomena that thrives when anxiety and isolation is high (uh, now).
Dec 10, 2020

What if the “Good News Club” isn’t good for me or my child?

(But who doesn't like free ice cream after a day in public school?)
Nov 13, 2020

The “religion” of our political extremes

America's hardcore polar political opposites seem to have something striking in common — they evoke a blind, unquestioning faith that feels like religion run amok.
Oct 15, 2020

Our Broken Hearts

We’re going to leave behind all the recriminations about how we got here or whose fault it is for a single golden hour to just be human together.
Sep 25, 2020

Political Tribe + Dissolving community

Measures of connectedness across society are on the decline, and extremism — and violence — is on the rise.