Dear friends,
Is loving your neighbor as yourself conservative or liberal, traditional or progressive?
We live in highly polarized cultures. How something is labeled can define how we experience it. If we see it as being on “our side,” we may identify with it and get behind it. If not, we may see it as alien and dismiss it.
So where does loving our neighbor align in our culture war?
I believe that neighbor love is both – deeply conservative and traditional and deeply liberal and progressive. It defies our dualism. And that’s part of its beauty. It’s why we need it now more than ever as polarization tries to separate us into enemy tribes.
Let me try to briefly explain.
It’s Conservative
Neighbor love is conservative and traditional.
It holds the conviction that we have a real, God-given moral obligation to love people. We are called to care for one another just like we ourselves want to be cared for... Read More































