James Talarico
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4,239 appearances
18 recordings
14 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 3 Jun
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The reason I ran for the state house was to try to follow that commandment and to try to craft public policies that are gonna help my neighbor.
It's gonna make my neighbor's life a little easier, a little less stressful.
And I was able to pass those bills because I was able to love my colleagues, my neighbors in the state legislature, even when we disagreed on other issues.
I always try to remember that everyone I come across
is the expression of a divine source.
Every person that I meet is the bearer of a sacred image.
And I forget that all the time.
We all forget it all the time.
But the more that I can hold onto that and remember that, especially in my political work, I think the more effective I am on bringing people over who may not agree with me on a lot of other issues, the more I'm able to serve
constituents and make their lives better, it is valuing each and every person and valuing their humanity.
And that really stems from those teachings that my granddad passed on to me and that
Jesus is still communicating to us 2,000 years later.
Well, and anyone who's read the New Testament...
quickly finds out that those are the neighbors we're specifically called to love.
It's our neighbors who are the most different from us.
Because it's really easy to love your neighbor who looks like you, who prays like you, who votes like you.
That's not a challenge.
The challenge is to love people who look differently, who pray differently, who vote differently.
And when you read Jesus's parables,
The hero is almost always someone who is on the outside, who's on the margins, who's different and despised.
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