My thoughts return to the theme of Washington National Cathedral’s forum, “With Malice Toward None, With Charity for All: Reclaiming Civility in American Politics.” How does the nation spend the next three months until Election Day?
At the beginning of the forum, cathedral Dean Randy Hollerith said, “I can think of few topics more important than civility and the need for civil discourse in order for our democracy to thrive.” And he set a high bar. He said the focus of the cathedral’s programs is to “remind people that even our worst enemies, political or otherwise, are the beloved children of God and should be treated as such.”