About
A few years ago, I spent a semester living with my polar opposites – students at Liberty University, the world’s largest conservative Christian school.
Despite being completely out of place (I’m a liberal Quaker with parents who once worked for Ralph Nader), I sort of liked it.
After my book came out, people started sending me stories about their surprising encounters with their intellectual, religious, and political opposites. I heard about Jews working with Jehovah’s Witnesses, atheists babysitting for Presbyterian ministers, and Tea Partiers living down the hall from MSNBC-watching liberals.
The Jonah Project is my non-partisan, non-sectarian attempt to catalog those unlikely interactions and facilitate a few hundred more.
It’s dedicated to the idea that isolation creates extremism, that talking with people who disagree with us makes us stronger and more tolerant citizens, and that it’s possible to disagree without being disagreeable.
Because, like it or not, we’re all in this together.
(And 500 books aren’t going to give themselves away.)
To learn more about the Jonah Project, see my introductory post, or watch a video of me introducing the project at this year’s GEL (Good Experience Live) conference. (The important bit starts at around 11:00 in the video.)
