“Braver Angels – Depolarizing Political Conversations among Americans”
Braver Angels Georgia co-coordinators:
Barbara Brown (left) – Sixth-grade special ed teacher, former business owner.
Sharyn Dowd (right) – Retired pastor and university Bible teacher
Sharyn Dowd is retired from an associate pastor position at First Baptist
Church of Decatur (GA). She previously taught Scripture at Lexington
(KY) Theological Seminary and at Baylor University. Besides her work
for Braver Angels Georgia, Sharyn volunteers at Edgewood Church in
Atlanta, serves on the board of a small nonprofit working to reduce
Female Genital Mutilation among the Pokot tribespeople of Kenya, and
enjoys her family in Mableton.
“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” – Abraham Lincoln
Facilitator: Wade Marbaugh
Musician: Jean Heinrich