Thursday Thought

If the Church valued reconciliation over judgement, it would have to surrender its fondness for black-and-white, either-or thinking. Our tendency of reducing the most difficult matters to the simplest and starkest of terms cripples our ability to understand and appreciate the moral complexity inherent in many issues. Worse, it predisposes us toward language of hostility when sympathy and understanding are most needed.
 ~ Philip Gulley