“Being civil isn’t just trying to be respectful toward the people we know. It is also to care about our common life…there’s something that binds human beings together that politics can’t create and it shouldn’t be able to destroy. What we really need to be thinking as people of faith, is how is it that our common life can flourish? Even if it isn’t going to be perfect and it isn’t going to fit all of our convictions, how can we have a flourishing common life together? ” —Theologian Richard Mouw, author of Christian Civility in an Uncivil World.
