Overcoming a Plague of Darkness of Our Time — Adapted from a sermon delivered to Northwest and Southwest Prairie Churches in Readstown, Wisconsin and Shaarie Torah in Portland, Oregon. By Rabbi Melissa Weintraub A common thread of darkness weaves together the last three of ten plagues befalling Egypt to break Pharaoh’s final resistance to freeing the Israelites. During the…

My time in Rural WI — By Aviva Herr-Welber A few days ago, I returned home from two whirlwind weeks in rural southwest Wisconsin and northeast Iowa with Resetting the Table, an organization committed to communication across divides in American life. As a part of a team conducting over 300 interviews in a 5-week span I…

By Rebecca Polivy I’m grateful for the opportunity to have supported Resetting the Table in their new initiative Resetting the American Table for the last few months culminating in spending the last 8 days in rural Wisconsin interviewing a range of people in the Driftless Region. The initiative was born…

By Josh Rolnick This summer I spent a week interviewing Trump voters in Viroqua, WI with Resetting the Table, an organization dedicated to promoting understanding and communication across areas of difference throughout the country. I went as part of Resetting the Table’s midwest “listening campaign,” which conducted hundreds of interviews…