Bill Doherty Talks Better Angels on the KQ Morning Show - Braver Angels
JOIN
DONATE
Join
Donate

Bill Doherty Talks Better Angels on the KQ Morning Show

Better Angels’ lead facilitator Bill Doherty talks to Minnesota’s 92 KQRS about our summer bus tour — and what it was like bringing liberals and conservatives together across the country.

Join Braver Angels

More to explore

‘Braver Angels really helped me to see the humanity in people from the other side’: One high schooler’s journey to better political conversations

06/18/2026 No Comments

A native of Boulder, Colorado, Mia didn’t know many Trump supporters—and she was nervous to engage with them. “I was like, ‘Don’t they hate women? Don’t they hate black people?’” she said. “That was my initial belief because that’s what I had heard about people who voted for Trump.” But she quickly realized she was wrong. During the first Braver Lens session, Mia was able to connect with conservatives in the group and recognize their points of commonality. “When we met, they showed their pictures, and explained their life stories, and I was able to see where our values overlap,” she said. 

Read More »

How a Christian conservative found his way to Braver Angels

06/09/2026 No Comments

As a young man, Daniel’s father emerged from a broken, dysfunctional home looking for direction and found it while attending a Billy Graham crusade in Chicago. There, he “walked forward”—committing himself to Jesus Christ and changing the trajectory of his family. Not long after, he married Daniel’s mom, a Christian convert whose grandparents sought refuge in America after escaping pogroms in Europe.

Read More »

Announcing Braver Angels Advisory Council

06/05/2026 No Comments

Twenty-three leaders who disagree on many things said yes to the same thing this month. They agreed to stand together, publicly, behind the idea that Americans can hold fast to their convictions while staying genuinely curious about the convictions of people on the other side. That’s it. That’s the commitment. For more than nine years, Braver Angels has reached people in every state in the union. The ones who’ve engaged have experienced something that surprises them every time: the relief of disagreeing without contempt, and the discovery that the person across the table is not who the feed said they were.

Read More »

1 thought on “Bill Doherty Talks Better Angels on the KQ Morning Show”

  1. Joyce Bonafield-Pierce

    Hello Bill,
    My name is Joyce Bonafield-Pierce (formerly without the Pierce), and I’ve known of you and met up with you in a few meetings decades past. My role in the mental health field was in forming and directing the Chrysalis Mental Health Clinic back in 1982.
    I’m joining the Braver Angels today, and attending a meeting this evening (if we can get there through the gnarled rush-hour traffic).
    In addition to being a therapist for many years, I have become a mediator, circle keeper and facilitator of other problem-solving/planning meetings. I hope to train as a facilitator of conversations/workshops with the Braver Angels.
    Thank you for conceiving and building this group…needed more now than ever!
    I’m also pondering (and in touch w some of our ldrs) re: possible need of international (non-affiliated in US political system) election monitors. I went to a Peace school in Austria where the UN (UNESCO) trained these people.
    Seems like we may need them ourselves now.
    Best regards,
    Dr. Joyce Bonafield-Pierce, Minneapolis MN 55405
    bonafieldcohort26@gmail.com 612-578-9597 cell // text

Leave a Comment

Braver Angels Support