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This video offers congregations insight into the importance of spiritual practices that bring different people together. Drawing upon her academic research and personal experiences, author Brene Brown shares why her relationship with God is strong but her relationship with the organized religion has been rocky.



To explore these ideas, Brown explains how her negative religious experiences connect with her research on political polarization, loneliness, our neurobiological drive to care for each other, and dehumanization. She then emphasizes the ways spiritual practices help people gather with diverse groups of strangers in collective joy and pain and help people to remember and sustain loving human connection.