Humanity vs. ideology: Trying to find a sweet spot in a polarized America
I once lived in a fundamentalist Christian commune in California, which I fled when I realized salvation was an inside job. (And a fundamental truth.) A former journalist, now I write about trying to find peace in a deeply divided America.
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