Remember when social media was invented, and its founders promised it would bring the world together? That hasn’t exactly happened, has it?
As Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse writes in his book “Them: Why We Hate Each Other—And How to Heal,” “More technology makes the world smaller, but that doesn’t mean that when we’re pressed together, we’ll hug.”
Sadly, it’s Christians who, when pressed together, contribute to some of the most uncivil conversations.
Part of our problem could be a lack of self-awareness. We all agree that the state of our discourse is very unhealthy, but we are often the last to see incivility in our own interactions.