A Republic, If We Can Keep It

Maybe if we do those things, maybe if we can love our neighbor as ourselves, maybe if we can respectfully dialogue and agree to disagree, and maybe if we remember that we are fellow Americans, fellow human beings and as Christians, remember we are fellow sinners in need of a Savior, maybe just maybe our republic can survive and maybe the credibility of the Christian church and it’s mission can as well.“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely, they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”- President Abraham Lincoln