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A podcast for those of us who want something more than what we've come to expect from politics -- and from our political discourse. Each week, More Than Politics will feature a conversation that helps put today’s politics in context, that honestly and charitably explores the issues of the day, that encourages us to engage in politics in a moral, even loving way. Hosted by Julie Varner Walsh, a former lobbyist for the Catholic Church, current mother of five / writer at www.thesewallsblog.com.

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MTP 2: Discussing This Moment (of Pandemic and Protest) with John Miller

July 30, 2020 • Julie Varner Walsh • Episode 2

In this episode Julie Walsh talks with John Miller, an award-winning journalist and filmmaker who, as a staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal for 13 years, reported from over 40 countries. John, an American, grew up in Brussels. He now lives in Pittsburgh.

Julie and John discuss the moment we find ourselves in, both here and abroad: the coronavirus pandemic, the economic uncertainty it has unleashed, and the movement against racial injustice that has followed the death of George Floyd.

You can learn more about John, and find links to his work, at www.johnwmiller.org. You can watch John’s first film, Moundsville, the biography of a classic American town, on your local PBS station or through www.moundsville.org.

In this episode John and Julie reference the following articles:

https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2018/11/28/my-ancestor-owned-41-slaves-what-do-i-owe-their-descendants

https://dailyyonder.com/in-historic-first-protests-spread-to-more-than-3000-towns/2020/06/10/

https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/04/03/road-trip-through-swing-states-coronavirus-hit

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