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More dialogue cannot save democracy David Allred/Going on Faith In part one of what I am calling, “Meditations for a New Year,” I thought I would begin with one of the conclusions that I am taking away from 2020. Simply put, I learned last year that more dialogue cannot save democracy. We are going to need something else. We are talking around, above, and over each other these days. If talking has been a big part of the problem, I struggle to see how more talking could be the solution.  Allow me to back up a minute. In 2017, I was afforded an opportunity to join a group of spiritual innovators at Harvard Divinity School. It was an opportunity that this outsider, often marginalized, rural-educated Oliver Springs High School graduate would not normally receive. My friend and co-laborer in ministry, the Rev. Jake Morrill of the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church, put in a good word for me and I was accepted to the program. In Boston for nearly a week, the academic elite (fo

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