What does 40 years of encouraging people teach you about making peace?

Liz Curtis Higgs — bestselling author of 37 books with 4.6 million copies in print, and host of Grace Every Monday — sits down with her niece and host Nell Rose Hill for a warm, funny, and deeply honest conversation about what peacemaking really asks of us.

Liz shares why she'd rather be called an encourager than an influencer, what the story of Abigail teaches about humility and wisdom, and how she responded when a happy personal post drew unexpected anger online — choosing to love the people who defended her and the people who criticized her, equally.

She also offers her hard-won peacemaking tips: think before you speak, surround yourself with peacemakers, and start close to home — because peace begins in our own hearts and homes before it reaches the world.

We cover encouragement, listening, loving across disagreement, the difference between a peacekeeper and a peacemaker, peacemaking on social media, and starting close to home.

Learn more about Liz Curtis Higgs and Grace Every Monday at https://www.lizcurtishiggs.com/

Or listen to Grace Every Monday on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LizCurtisHiggs/

All Peacemakers Needed spreads everyday peacemaking one conversation at a time. Learn more and become a peacemaker at allpeacemakersneeded.com.

Most people want the same thing: health, prosperity, good relationships, and a society that nourishes instead of divides. So why do we end up in conflict?

David B. Ostler — retired business executive and author of Healing Our Divides — has lived across continents and seen this truth firsthand. In this conversation, David shares the practical tools he developed for navigating deep disagreements: cognitive empathy, recognizing our own biases, and the radical act of humanizing people instead of labeling them.

Whether it's your family, your neighbors, or people with wildly different worldviews, David's approach is simple: start close to home. Do the work in the relationships that matter most. Choose your media wisely. And remember that most people are genuinely seeking goodness — they're just coming from different places. This is a conversation about seeing the person, not the position; about why jigsaw puzzles make good gathering places; and about why peacemaking doesn't require you to be an expert, just willing to try.

We cover cognitive empathy, humanizing people instead of labeling them, recognizing our own biases, finding common ground, building relationships across differences, and listening to understand.

Find Healing Our Divides by David B. Ostler at gregkofford.com.

All Peacemakers Needed spreads everyday peacemaking one conversation at a time. Learn more and become a peacemaker at allpeacemakersneeded.com

What if the secret to peacemaking was as simple as being curious instead of judgmental?

Dr. Patrick Mason — professor of religious studies at Utah State University and a graduate of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies — brings deep expertise and refreshing honesty to what it really means to be a peacemaker, including what happened when hundreds of trained peacemakers completely fell apart on an email listserv.

In this conversation, Dr. Mason shares why peacemaking is fundamentally about relationships, the difference between conflict resolution and conflict transformation, why peacemakers are made and not born, and why the Ted Lasso principle of "be curious, not judgmental" is a peacemaking skill anyone can learn.

We cover conflict transformation, the character of a peacemaker, why we reduce people to positions, nonviolence, the civil rights movement and John Lewis, the meaning of shalom, and everyday peacemaking.

Learn more about Dr. Mason's book Proclaim Peace at https://mi.byu.edu/proclaim-peace-the-restorations-answer-to-an-age-of-conflict and find his Proclaim Peace podcast on YouTube. His faculty profile: usu.edu/experts/profile/patrick-mason.

All Peacemakers Needed spreads everyday peacemaking one conversation at a time. Learn more and become a peacemaker at allpeacemakersneeded.com.