The Power of Giving Away

i was really struck by the paradox that lies at the heart of it. On one hand, matthew is a strong advocate of the idea that we need to recognize our diversity and our difference in order for power to mean anything. In other historical moments, political division might have given way to common feeling when we faced something like the covet pandemic. But in our profoundly politicized era, it seems as though even existential threat to our lives is not enough to pull us together. i don't have a simple solution to how we get there, other than living through the realities of our divisions and trying to slowly and gently make our ay back towards the middle.