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When the last Presidential election was over, I anticipated that the partisanship would settle down. Was I ever wrong!! The political divide continues to grow exponentially, especially in the last couple of weeks.
The opening quote in David Brubaker’s newest book: When the Center Does Not Hold: Leading in an Age of Polarization, is an apt description of today’s cultural condition:
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold, ….
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
-- W.B. Yeats, 1919 (edited)
I would hope that politics would not influence church friendships but surveys show the opposite. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing, when a church staff member told me she questioned the salvation of a church member because that person voted for the Democratic Presidential candidate.
Here’s something you might find hard to believe. (to continue...)
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