We’re heading into what definitely looks as if essentially the most fraught election in United States historical past—a sensation due largely to the divisive and tribalistic nature of our politics. Certainly, the gulf between Left and Proper, progressive and conservative, Democrat and Republican, has by no means felt extra huge… or extra harmful.
Again in June, we despatched out a name for options which may assist us all assume by means of this intense tribalism. Beginning on October 25, we’ll start publishing them and take into account just a few questions, resembling:
- What can video video games and basic TV reveal concerning the execs and cons of tribalism?
- Is tribalism all the time dangerous, or can it really be used to assist us discern and decipher reality in an more and more murky and sophisticated tradition?
- How are tribalism and human fallibility portrayed in comedian books?
As we draw ever-closer to Election Day, and even after the ballots have been forged and counted, we wish to thoughtfully take into account how forces—political, cultural, and so on.—are striving to drive us aside, and to what finish. And extra importantly, we wish to search and promote ways in which Christians, particularly, can look previous lies and manipulation, maintain onto the great and the true, and search to unify and heal as a substitute of tear down and divide.
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