Faith Marsalli, former pastor at Klamath Falls Friends, has a certain courage. A native of Orange County California, where the Republican brand is foremost, she dares to have political conversations with people who have the very opposite opinion of hers—and stay in loving relationships.

Just how is that possible? I asked Faith. I told her I had gotten through the U.S. politics on Facebook okay. Then somebody started posting the same Russian propaganda points I heard when we lived in Russia.

That's when I lost it.

“We've all lost it," she replied. “And I think that's why we're trying to work on it. That's what motivates us, because we get so triggered by things that that feel so completely opposite of what our perspective is. And how do we have a conversation and not lose our cool?"

And as I'm sitting down, I think, ‘Oh, I did not lose my faith. I lost a theology.’ And for the first time, I was able to distinguish between those two things. So I'd been thinking for a long time, I lost my faith. I've lost my faith, I've lost my faith. — But I had just lost a theology.

- Julie Peyton