Election Aftermath: Faith & The Common Good
Election aftermath: Watch the discussion
(RNS) Now that the bitterly contested presidential election is behind us, how can we bring the country closer together?
On Dec. 7, Tom Gallagher, the newly appointed Religion News Service CEO and publisher, assembled an expert panel to discuss this question. Panelists included RNS columnist Mark Silk, Fordham University ethicist Charles Camosy, filmmaker Tom Scott and communications professor MaryAnn Murtha. RNS national reporter David Gibson moderated.
The discussion, co-sponsored by St. Catherine of Siena Church in Riverside, Conn., took place at the parish in front of some 200 people.
Cory Hodson, a Yale Divinity School graduate student, managed the Facebook Live streaming video and live-tweeted throughout. Kathy DiGiovanna, a professional photographer, snapped photos.
Photos from the event
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- Over 200 people attended an expert panel discussion titled “Election Aftermath: Faith & the Common Good,” co-sponsored by Religion News Service and St. Catherine of Siena Parish, Riverside, Conn.
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- RNS CEO and Publisher Tom Gallagher welcomes some 200 people to the “Election Aftermath: Faith & the Common Good” expert panel discussion on Dec. 7, 2016, held at St. Catherine of Siena Parish, Riverside, Conn.
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- Some of the 200 attendees enjoying the expert panel discussion titled “Election Aftermath: Faith & the Common Good,” held on Dec. 7, 2016, at St. Catherine of Siena Parish, Riverside, Conn., and co-sponsored by Religion News Service.
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- Left to right, RNS national reporter David Gibson, who moderated the “Election Aftermath: Faith & the Common Good” panel discussion, with Deacon Renato Berzolla, of St. Catherine of Siena Parish, Riverside, Conn., who helped organize the evening event, and Mark Silk of Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., a panelist and RNS’ “Spiritual Politics” columnist.
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- Monsignor Alan F. Detscher, left, pastor of St. Catherine of Siena Parish, Riverside, Conn., who co-hosted the evening event, chats with parishioner and RNS CEO and Publisher Tom Gallagher at the “Election Aftermath: Faith & the Common Good” panel discussion, held at St. Catherine’s.
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- Left to right, Monsignor Alan F. Detscher, pastor of St. Catherine of Siena Parish, Riverside, Conn., who co-hosted the evening event, with Mark Silk of Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., a panelist and RNS’ “Spiritual Politics” columnist, and RNS national reporter David Gibson, who moderated the Dec. 7, 2016, “Election Aftermath: Faith & the Common Good” panel discussion.
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- RNS national reporter David Gibson, who moderated the “Election Aftermath: Faith & the Common Good” panel discussion, held on Dec. 7, 2016, at St. Catherine of Siena Parish, Riverside, Conn., offers a bit of commentary to an audience of some 200 people.
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- RNS National Correspondent David Gibson introduces the members of the expert panel titled “Election Aftermath: Faith & the Common Good,” including, left to right, Charles Camosy, Mark Silk, MaryAnn Murtha and Tom Scott. The event was co-sponsored by Religion News Service and St. Catherine of Siena Parish, Riverside, Conn.
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- Professor Charles Camosy offers a response during the “Election Aftermath: Faith & the Common Good” expert panel discussion on Dec. 7, 2016, at St. Catherine of Siena Parish, Riverside, Conn., in front of an audience of some 200 people.
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- On the far left Charles Camosy offers his perspective on how to move the country forward after a brutal presidential campaign at an expert panel co-sponsored by Religion News Service and St. Catherine of Siena Parish, Riverside, Conn. Meanwhile, Mark Silk, MaryAnn Murtha, Tom Scott and David Gibson prepare to respond.
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- Western Connecticut State University adjunct professor MaryAnn Murtha offers insight during the “Election Aftermath: Faith & the Common Good” expert panel discussion on Dec. 7, 2016, at St. Catherine of Siena Parish, Riverside, Conn., in front of an audience of some 200 people. Tom Scott, business executive, Yale University Divinity School graduate student and co-founder of The Nantucket Project, based in Greenwich, Conn., listens in.
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- Monsignor Alan F. Detscher, pastor of co-sponsor St. Catherine of Siena Parish, Riverside, Conn., offers some closing remarks.
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- Tom Scott, business executive, Yale University Divinity School graduate student and co-founder of The Nantucket Project, based in Greenwich, Conn., offers his insight during the expert panel discussion titled “Election Aftermath: Faith & the Common Good,” held on Dec. 7, 2016, at St. Catherine of Siena Parish, Riverside, Conn., in front of an audience of some 200 people. The event was co-sponsored by Religion News Service and St. Catherine’s.
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- Monsignor Alan F. Detscher, pastor of St. Catherine of Siena Parish, Riverside, Conn., offers closing remarks at the expert panel discussion titled “Election Aftermath: Faith & the Common Good.” The parish co-sponsored the event with Religion News Service.
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- Over 200 people attended an expert panel discussion titled “Election Aftermath: Faith & the Common Good,” co-sponsored by Religion News Service and St. Catherine of Siena Parish, Riverside, Conn.
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- Left to right, Charles Camosy, Mark Silk, MaryAnn Murtha, Tom Scott, David Gibson, Monsignor Alan F. Detscher and RNS CEO and Publisher Tom Gallagher at the conclusion of the expert panel discussion titled “Election Aftermath: Faith & the Common Good.” The event was held at St. Catherine of Siena Parish, Riverside, Conn., and co-sponsored by Religion News Service and St. Catherine’s.
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Comments
This is an effort that’s overdue. A more proactive organization that seeks to reach the majority Christian audience, as well as their Jewish and Muslim readers, could have begun this long before the results of the election became known, as it is the same need, regardless of which side won! This is a good exercise for RNS, as they probably wouldn’t bother with a healing process with the unwshed Trump supporters, had the Dems won!
An ” expert ” panel ?
What a joke !
Four of the five panelists have a professional religious affiliation. So the division in the US has been caused by religion – right ?
If I have a leaky pipe – I don’t call a cleric. If I have a broken political/social/cultural system I don’t call upon the so-called “experts” who are PART OF THE PROBLEM !
There were no minorities and only one woman on your ” expert ” panel – shame – for shame….
Corrupt politics/religion/greed and a surplus of testosterone are the problem. We can’t blame this on the women as so many religious are wont to do.
The attendees in the photo are also responsible for our problems. They are the ones who elected our politicians for (by their ages) the last 40-50 yrs.
Why didn’t you have this discussion in a college or high school ?
Where were the youth of our country represented on your ” expert ” panel ?
We (I’m 78) are leaving our youth a totally broken political/social/cultural system. Institutional religion for all its feigned authority and self-glorificatiuon is a cancer.
Let us get the hell out of their way. We and our existing ” experts ” and ” leaders ” of every stripe need to get-the-hell-out-of-their-way !
Any voter 35 + should hang his/her head in shame for the debacle we have caused.
We have done so much harm worldwide that I’m not sure my grandchildren will find this earth habitable for the next 3-4 generations.
No more of your ridiculously represented feel-good panels ! ! !
I see this is the usual Robust Debate in which all participants agree that good people need to be EXTERMINATED. The discussion is a sort of auction, bidding up the degree of EXTERMINATION needed. Reserve value is 100% of good people, and by the end of the auction the price has reached 10000000000000000000000000000000% of good people.
Wake me when you have a discussion with more than one side, a discussion in which normal humans are allowed to exist for at least a few microseconds.
Well, we’ll never know thanks to voter suppression, James Comey, Vladamir Putin, and the mass psychology of fascism.
I read many ridiculous things in comments section but this one tops the list.
I can tell you this… the election has proved to me and millions of others that Christians, especially evangelistic christians are the most Hateful, gun toten, non-Jesus like individuals on earth.. They spend most of their time looking for things & people to hate and kill…They fear everything due to ignorance and have no free thought. Terrible… Terrible People who use their religion to destroy others and feed their own egos.
You sad Democrats are still grasping at any available straw to justify the fact that you got your butts kicked rather soundly by Trump on election day! You migh as well admit you had a badly flawed candidate who’s hubris dept her from realizing how no one believed her feeble defense of that email server, or even how unpopular she was with her own party! Joe Biden would have won it!
Possibly so re: Biden. The ret: bull. We didn’t lose but by 87,000 votes in WI, MI, and PA. Trump has no mandate. He enters his term a minority elected fluke. The Democrats are doing fine, thank you. We are resilient, reviving and the force of redemption and we will provide massive resistance to his extremist agenda. It profits the forces of repression nothing to have won on a technicality here.