“Some people think they are in community, but they are only in proximity. True community requires commitment and openness. It is a willingness to extend yourself to encounter and know the other.” – David Spangler, American Philosopher

A quick look at the tenor of our current national public political discourse makes one thing clear: We are a nation currently divided into warring factions, at least verbally. We seem to be divided up into sides and believing we are in a zero sum game ― against one another instead of any external foe.

There is only one way this ends, and we’ve seen it in our own past. If we don’t talk to one another now, across our differences, seeing one another as not just fellow humans but as fellow Americans, we may be back there again. It does not help at all when ther

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