When Christians in the United States engage in spiritual practices that help us be more present to one another and our local watersheds, we make our ministries more relational and authentic.
Once those lines are crossed, and we dehumanize our enemy, it is a short and slippery slope to becoming the very thing we claim to be fighting against.
First they came for indigenous communities, then they came for the impoverished neighborhoods of Flint, Mich., and now they are coming for peaceful Mennonites.