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<p class="text">Everybody is saying it because it’s true. Our nation is fractured into factions. Politics cuts us in half and religion cuts out some and makes others a cut above. Wearing masks turns some into beastly behaviors. Which is one of the problems. We gravitate toward extremes. Facebook knows it; Twitter knows it; and that’s why the bots under Silicon Valley are shaping our culture. <em>Social Dilemma</em> made it clear for those who watched, as Kris and I did.</p>
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<p class="text">We need voices of reason. We need political analysts and religion columnists who neither paper over our differences nor turn to stridency for the numbers but who can find the issue itself and talk about it intelligently. And carry on a discourse that doesn’t shame or threaten the opposing side but shows respect in disagreement.</p>
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<p class="text">We also need people who will publicly confess, apologize, repent, repair, reconcile and restore what they were complicit in cracking into factions.</p>
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<p class="text">What we need is an old-fashioned Christian idea called grace.</p>
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<p class="text">We now have all of this in Kirsten Powers wonderful new book, <em><strong><a href="https://amzn.to/3nFxTqU" class="">Saving Grace: Speak Your Truth, Stay Centered, and Learn to Coexist with People Who Drive You Nuts</a></strong></em>.</p>
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<p class="text">Those of you who read me, knowing that I don’t enter into political discourse very often for reasons already mentioned, may not know her. She’s a political analyst and columnist on both <em>CNN </em>and on <em>USA Today</em>. I have read her for years because she is what I like most in political commentary: clear-minded, fiercely so at times, yet reasonable and logical. Over the years I have occasionally written to her to express my appreciation.</p>
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<p class="text">My appreciation is now over the top with this book. No idea or doctrine in Christianity is more emphatic than grace, even if it has at times ...</p><p class="more"><a href="https://www.christianitytoday.com/scot-mcknight/2021/november/what-we-need-is-saving-grace-in-public-discussion.html">Continue reading</a>...</p>
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