16. Gretchen Castle and the Quaker Call to Action

On this episode of the Western Friend Podcast, we are joined by Gretchen Castle, Dean of Earlham School of Religion and a member of the national steering committee of the Quaker Call to Action.

Interviewed with a live virtual studio audience, Gretchen discusses the "Quaker Call to Action," a nationwide response to the urgent, current threats to U.S. democracy. After the interview, the conversation was opened to community members for a live Q and A.
 

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 1:30 On engaging in difficult conversations
• 5:23 The 4 Items of the Call to Action
• 8:44 On Truth
• 11:42 On celebrating difference and diversity
• 16:02 On Hope
• 22:48 Question and Answer session
• 23:08 Conversation Cafe
• 25:44 Engaging folks who are angry
• 31:11 On the polarization of the moment
• 35:20 On partisanship within Quakerism
• 38:33 Jon's classic pun
• 46:40 On preparing ourselves for what's to come
• 51:40 Outro