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Eboo Patel has spent decades thinking about interfaith work and buildnig an institution devoted to promoting it.
In this conversation, we talk about his work building Interfaith America, his new book "We Need to Build," and how America can strengthen democracy by making faith more welcome in public life, not less so, by embracing its diversity of faiths as co-contributors to the common good.
Here's the piece I mention by John Inazu: "Interfaith Doesn't Mean Compromise"
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