Choosing to move past division
Proper 15B | John 6:51-58
Good morning, Friends! It’s been a minute. Anything happen while I was gone? A few things, I’m guessing. I don’t watch the news for hours these days, but we heard things in northern Michiga
Politics is always in season, but this is when it is all inescapable, isn’t it? And there is a thing we do with our politics that is a little less than helpful. But it starts before we think about parties and bills and platforms and elections. It has to do with the way we address the material of our world.
Notice that I said material of this world. My first thought was to say it differently. I originally planned to say problems. That it has to do with the way we address our problems. But even that falls for the trap in our thinking.
And that trap is to reflect on the world with binary thinking: that everything is a choice between only two things…
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