There are no crystal balls in anyone’s pastoral tool kit, nor are there any magic wands to wave and suddenly repair our brokenness.

I’ve never seen us so divided. Some suggest we’ve never been this divided since the Civil War. But here’s what I know—we have everything we need to rise up out of this divide—and if we’re going to do it, it’s going to require us to find a third way. Not a middle way, not a “purple carpet” compromise, but a completely different floor covering. A third way.