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Community After God: Why the Left Needs What Church Provided
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Air Date: 3/24/2026
Today we explore what happens when people reject religious dogma but still hunger for ritual, meaning, and the concrete benefits of community. We'll hear from secular assemblies building "church without creed," atheist Quakers finding silence sacred, and a Caribbean thinker designing a naturalistic pagan practice built around science and seasonal ritual — all asking what religion can be when you strip away the supernatural.
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(00:49:04) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
On the Left's Community Crisis and What We Can Learn from Megachurches
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