Just hours after concluding their Passover Seder at the Pennsylvania Governor’s Mansion in April, Gov. Josh Shapiro and his wife Lori were evacuated from the home alongside their children and dogs when an arsonist started a fire using Molotov cocktails.

Shapiro spoke with emotion about the experience on Tuesday night at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., alongside Utah Gov. Spencer Cox. The event was presented in partnership with Disagree Better, The Wheatley Institute at Brigham Young University, and the National Institute for Civil Discourse

It was Shapiro’s experience with religious and political violence that led him to call Cox in the moments after Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, he said.

“I never looked to myself to being any sort o

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