How to Love Your Enemies: A Conversation with Andrew Hanauer

This week, we’re sharing a beautiful and timely conversation between Faith Matters’ executive director Zach Davis and Andrew Hanauer, the founder and CEO of the One America Movement, an organization that helps faith leaders fight toxic polarization.

In this conversation, Andrew and Zach discuss the causes behind the rise in polarization, the way political tribalism can become a false idol, and the imperative of truly following Jesus’ call to “love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.” Andrew encourages us to see that our calling as disciples of Jesus is to follow his example and transform conflict through love.

We hope you enjoy this episode and with that, we’ll hand it over to Zach.

[DaisyMountain]

Great discussion! Loved your questions Zach. Amazing work you are doing Andrew! I’m going to re-listen a few more times, it is that good!

[shaunparry]

Such an important topic. Polarization is real and destroying our society from the inside out. The prevalent sentiment is that we can't be friends with people who think different from how we think. I have to mention how interesting your shirt choices were in this episode.