Noted: Dialogue is the centerpiece of what Upper House, a Christian nonprofit group located on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, aims to do in Madison. The group considers itself broadly Christian and has both evangelicals and non-evangelicals on its board of directors. It hosts events on a variety of Christian faith issues, often looking at how it informs other disciplines.
“We were raised for generations that in polite society, you don’t talk about politics or religion because they’re polarizing,” said Jon Dahl, a campus minister at UW, who is on the boards of Upper House and Blackhawk Church. “We’re living with the consequences of that sort of attitude because what it means is that we don’t know how to talk about politics or religion constructively.