Ciaran and John talk about their roads to Braver Angels, the Depolarization Movement, Martin Luther King, Jr., the need for community and how to apply love in politics.
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.
1 thought on “The Braver Angels Way”
The physicality of angels is the spirituality of the only thing US citizens have in common: the original constitution. It’s poorly written, but the context in which it was written provides hind sight and vision. The declaration of Independence warns of despotism and Articles of Confederation describe a confederacy for the Constitution to improve upon. Without this foundation, the Constitution lacks integrity. Hence, we have yet to free ourselves of Britannic polity and ordain the original constitution supreme; build consensus in agreement with its intents to improve the union and establish justice, and its purposes: ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure these blessings of liberty.
The words, secure the blessing were written before the first amendments. Therefore the must refer to something other than the so-called bill of rights. Tranquility is a blessing. Heart to defend our common ground is a blessing. Equitable well-being, equality, is a blessing. Tranquility, heart and equality are the essential blessings of liberty. When secured the union will be improved and justice will be established.