We’re heading into what definitely looks like probably 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 that may assist us all suppose by this intense tribalism. Beginning on October 25, we’ll start publishing them and contemplate just a few questions, equivalent to:
- What can video video games and traditional TV reveal concerning the professionals and cons of tribalism?
- Is tribalism at all times unhealthy, or can it truly be used to assist us discern and decipher fact 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 contemplate how forces—political, cultural, and many others.—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.
