The following guest post by former S-USIH President Paul Murphy is his summary take on last weekend’s “Progressive/Conservative” common ground summit hosted by the Hauenstein Center at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Videos of all the talks are available for your viewing pleasure here. The subject of politics is carefully avoided in much of my life – not a topic of discussion with other parents at my kids’ school nor with neighbors.  We usually succeed in avoiding it at family holidays, and generally move on to avoid big arguments when it does crop up.  It rarely enters Read more