The Society We Deserve

Years ago, my brother-in-law — a farmer — was badly injured in an accident just before harvest. What happened next is the reason I believe what I believe. More than thirty farming families showed up with combines, trucks, and food. They finished in one day what would have taken one farmer weeks. Nobody was paid.…

Everywhere I go, I hear the same anxiety. People are worried about polarization. About loneliness. About whether democracy itself can hold. I hear it from pastors and farmers, from software engineers and retired schoolteachers, from progressives and conservatives, from Christians, Muslims, Jews, and people of no religion at all. And at nearly every gathering, someone…