ON THIS EPISODE:

The call for the believer is to love your neighbor. But can you love your neighbor when he's constantly punching you? What if he's punching someone else? How do you love that neighbor?

Here's what I'm saying. We live in one of the most antagonistic, polarized, and oppositional moments in modern history. One side is very aggressive. It wants power, control, and its ideas to be hegemonic -- by force if necessary.

Their opposition has started fighting back with the same weapons and methods. Destruction and dissolving seem inevtiable.

Might there be a third way? Is there a way where we stop trying to destroy each other and instead agree to have some shared spaces and institutional neutrality? That's what I want to wrestle with for the first 30 minutes of the show.

After that, Jonthan Hadit recently wrote one of the best articles of the last decade about our cultural dissolution. He lays some blame on social media, and he has a great point.