All authority is under question. The price we pay for such determined individualism is very high indeed. Loneliness is surely the dis-ease of our time. Downright meanness is too often the way we deal with one another. We have become obsessively litigious.
Road rage is frighteningly common.
But there is an alternative, a fundamentally different way of living together. We must take a radically different approach to the common good. I believe we must lift up new notions of genuine community. At Seattle Pacific University, we seek to model grace-filled community. I believe this is a deeply important commitment for us as we move into the future.