“There’s nothing squishy about it. Good conflict is not about surrender or unity. It’s about walking into the fire, not walking away.” Journalist Amanda Ripley highlights Resetting the Table’s transformative work with an influential congregation in New York as a model of “good conflict.”

“[Resetting the Table] works not only with clergy and congregations but also with entertainment industry workers [and] journalists. But its work among religious groups is especially critical because those communities are among the last places where people with differing worldviews gather together.”

"Rather than an excuse to avoid change or water down conviction, pluralism is a strategy for making progress on intractable issues. Examples abound. In Buffalo, the nonprofit Resetting the Table organized a cross-ideological, multifaith campaign to prevent hate-based violence."

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“Everyone sort of felt this huge weight was lifted off their shoulders and off their chests,” [NYU alumnus Elyza Veta] said. “The fact that we were all able to sit through this program, to understand where everybody was coming from … No question that by the end of that, everybody came out more empathetic to the people they disagreed with.”

A feature on RTT’s Co-Founding CEO, Melissa Weintraub. “The ultimate goal, according to Rabbi Weintraub… is to build ‘a more cohesive society, a shared society, in which we don’t erase our disagreements but make them generative, in which we see our counterparts as our partners in sustaining our democracy.’”

“When Resetting the Table approached us, we were inspired by a dual aspiration: One, to mobilize regional evangelicals to contribute to healing across divides in Greater Buffalo, in the face of tragedy and pain that risks separating us further from one another. Two, to surface our own internal differences and hard conversations, both because that is the Christian way and because it is what our community and country need,” writes Pastor Dan Trippie, evangelical pastor in Buffalo, NY.

“Going toward differences rather than commonalities attracted both conservatives and progressives with strong convictions. We let people know they didn’t have to compromise their values to come into the room. …This is especially compelling to people who are passionate about issues and beginning with deep distrust of each other.”