How to Restore Our Belief in One Another with Rich Harwood

Mission Forward with Carrie Fox · Sep 25, 2025 · 34m

Here’s what we know about political violence in America: it’s getting worse. Here’s what we think we know about why: polarization, social media, extreme rhetoric. But what if we’re looking at this all wrong?

Rich Harwood has spent the last 30 years in the places many of us have written off—communities fractured by poverty, loss, and division. What he’s found in those places challenges our assumptions about where progress begins. It’s not happening in Washington. It’s not playing out on cable news. It’s emerging, quietly but powerfully, through a reawakening of what Harwood calls civic…