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Jacob Hess

Jacob Hess is a writer and editor for faith and perspective at the Deseret News and a longtime advocate of liberal-conservative understanding, based in Paradise, Utah.

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Sep 29, 2026

Talkin‘ Politics & Religion Without Killin‘ Each Other

Talkin‘ Politics & Religion Without Killin‘ Each Other

Joan Blades and Jacob Hess || MoveOn's Co-Founder and a Utah Conservative Walk Into a Living Room

Sep 29 · 1h 30m

Corey NathanHOST

2:39

Whatever direction you want to take it.

Jacob HessGUEST

2:42

Yeah, Joan is one of the founders of MoveOn.org. Yeah.

Jacob HessGUEST

2:48

For conservatives, that means she's one of the bad guys, bad gals.

Jacob HessGUEST

2:54

And I met her years ago at a National Coalition of Dialogue and Deliberation meeting.

Jacob HessGUEST

3:00

She was describing this epiphany that the adversarial problem solving that is a part of sort of activism and there's, you know, activism can be powerful.

Jacob HessGUEST

3:10

There's nothing wrong with putting your passion out in the public square, but it was going to be limited.

Jacob HessGUEST

3:16

And so she was starting to explore There's other ways of doing it.

51 MINS LATER

Joan BladesGUEST

54:32

Oh, absolutely.