A healthy society is one “in which people who orient around religion differently can disagree on some fundamental things and work together on other fundamental things…how do you have a society in which people who disagree on where to draw the line in the Middle East will perform heart surgery together, or serve on the PTA together? Isn’t that what a diverse democracy is? And it feels to me like the central thing that we do is nurture that ethic of a half-full cup of, “I will disagree with you on this set of things and continue to work with you on this other set of things.”— Dr. Ebbo Patel
From On Being with Krista Tippet, that I heard this morning on KHNS. (It airs in Haines on 7-8 Sundays.)The entire interview is worth a listen or a read, as it applies equally well to local and national issues of faith and justice and the times we are living in.
