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March 18, 2024

Civil Discourse & Just Action Featuring Corey Nathan and Leah Rothstein

Civil Discourse & Just Action Featuring Corey Nathan and Leah Rothstein

In this episode, Corey Nathan, host of the podcast, Talkin’ Politics & Religion Without Killin’ Each Other, talks about the importance of civil discourse in our democracy and Leah Rothstein, author of the book, Just Action, discusses her book and the message of activism it seeks to convey. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/erik-fleming1/support

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Corey Nathan

Producer, Host of "Talkin' Politics & Religion Without Killin' Each Other"

Corey Nathan
Engaged Citizen | Creative Businessman | Jew from Jersey who became a Christian |
We CAN talk politics and religion without killing each other

Corey Nathan started out as a stockbroker (Series 7, Series 63) during the day while he was studying at a theatre conservatory at night. Since then, he’s been an entrepreneur with one foot in business and one foot in creative pursuits having built and managed such endeavors as:
- a specialty headhunting firm
- a theatre and film ensemble
- a residential and commercial service company
- a 501c3 to help folks during the pandemic
- and most recently a new media/content company.

Personally, Corey was raised in an observant Jewish household attending an Orthodox synagogue. His family is mostly from Brooklyn, NY; but Corey grew up on the Jersey side - Bruce Springsteen country! In his late 20s, much to the family's chagrin, Corey became a Born-again Christian. Not long after this epiphany, however, the new believer began to find many of the prevailing social and political positions of contemporary American Evangelicalism to be at odds with the very Scriptures that are supposed to be Christians’ authority for how to engage in the world.

This background lends itself to the program he produces and hosts, Talkin’ Politics & Religion Without Killin’ Each Other, on which world renowned guests join in on conversations that take some of the space in the public square back from the screamers and extremists who've taken it over.

Corey has been married to Lisa for a… Read More

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Leah Rothstein

Author

Leah Rothstein is co-author, with Richard Rothstein, of Just Action, a sequel to The Color of Law. While in The Color of Law, Mr. Rothstein described how government policy created residential segregation, Just Action describes how local community groups can begin to redress the wrongs of segregation. Leah has worked on public policy and community change, from the grassroots to the halls of government. She has led research on reforming community corrections policy and practice to be focused on rehabilitation, not punishment and has been a consultant to nonprofit housing developers, cities and counties, redevelopment agencies, and private firms on community development and affordable housing policy, practice, and finance. Her policy work is informed by her years as a labor and community organizer. She lives in Oakland, in the San Francisco Bay Area.