America and Americans need healing. Our faith communities can help.
For centuries, our churches and faith communities were among the most important providers of physical healing and health care, first caring for the ill in monasteries and on battlefields, then building hospitals. We were there in times of crisis.
This yearâs elections are over. The pain that was inflicted, and the need for healing across our great nation, are still with us, however. Many of us are brokenhearted. We have lost valued relationships with family, friends and colleagues over political differences. But, as we look across our faith communityâs congregation, we do not see people who would destroy the economy, people who are fascists, communists or anarchists; we do not see people who hate others for who they are, even though we belong to more than one political party. We see a family of believers who love and support each other and who try to work together for the good of society. We have differing ideas of how to grow our economy and protect our country, but none of us are only right or only wrong. Our sense of community allows for a mutual respect of these differences.