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If you are arguing about what happened between Renée Good and ICE, you are having the wrong conversation. And we are very good at having the wrong conversation in this country. These moments are not informing us. They are forming us.

To put it frankly: We have run out of time.

My hot take is this: We've all fallen short of the virtue lines that we toe. Yet, we still try to hold others to that invisible line in the sand that we rarely fully attain ourselves. Expecting them to value the things we value with perfect adherance. An expectation they never once agreed to meet.

We live in a time when disagreement can feel dangerous—when the culture around us seems to grow more violent, and our values lie in very different places. Even our words no longer mean the same things to one another. For some, words themselves are violent—and therefore seen as deserving of physical violence in return. But if that’s true, does it break the very contract of dialogue? How do we move forward when simply trying to understand one another feels unsafe?

For years, I’ve felt like I was trying to hold the world together with my two bare hands. And when the assassination of Charlie Kirk happened and the divide in our country seemed to deepen overnight, I felt helpless... almost as if I had failed. I know it all sounds somewhat ridiculous. But if you’ve ever carried a calling that felt bigger than you, you know what I mean. Realizing I had been carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders led me to a breaking point. So I mad

Shortly Charlie's assassination, I held an online “Dinner and Discussion” meetup to give our community an opportunity to process Charlie Kirk accross the divide. And despite varying opinions about his political positions, we all landed on the same shared concensus: we cannot live in a country where murder becomes the response to unpopular views. We simply cannot.