So, help me understand...
It's been a week. It has been hard on most of us. Those who identify with Charlie Kirk on issues and politics, it has been heartbreaking. My students are wrestling with the reality of lethal hatred. They are motivated and united to continue on and make a difference. I have been listening. What has been astonishing to me is the glee expressed at this violent death. I am unsettled that even though many disagreed with his politics he is not simply mourned as a person of profound and vocal faith within the faithful community. We can't seem to unite on that either. So, help me understand why this is so very hard to do? I have always wrestled with how we conflate faith and politics. We use the same language and contempt for the other side of the aisle; conservative, liberal, progressive, left, right etc. We divide, make assumptions, limit conversation, do the eye rolls, label, cancel and minimize those uneducated conservatives and those unchristian liberals. So, help m...
