
Shadowing Pádraig Ó Tuama: Common Ground is Not the Goal
While prioritizing the search for common ground has great use, it also runs the risk of assuming we must do this because difference is bad.
While prioritizing the search for common ground has great use, it also runs the risk of assuming we must do this because difference is bad.
I think part of what this reveals is that we are all moving through life yearning to be true, authentic, and vulnerable with each other. We want desperately to show our true selves to each other. To have our pain and our pride, our vulnerability and our victories, seen and heard—even by total strangers. We have stories we don’t want to keep inside.
Reposting a story I wrote for OnFaith on dining in the home of Palestinian Muslims, originally published April 3, 2017. As we prepare to step inside their home, a friend says, “It is a different world in there.” They are Muslim, and we are Christian. We come from white American privilege, and they from the poverty […]
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