Recognizing that People Are Complex

In his book, What If Jesus Was Serious About Justice? Skye Jetani has a helpful comment about how we often have too simple a view of the people around us:

“Just as we are each more than the worst thing we’ve ever done, we are also more than a single label. We tend to see those we disagree with through a simplistic, tainted lens. The philosopher Amartya Sen calls this tendency “miniaturization.” Rather than seeing our dissenters as complicated, multidimensional people, we reduce them to a one-dimensional identity that is often based on a negative or an exaggerated quality. They are merely liberal or conservative, woke or alt-right, a snowflake or a fascist.”

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About Richard Heyduck

Pastor of Hardy Memorial Methodist Church, a Global Methodist Congregation. PhD Fuller Seminary MDiv Asbury Seminary BA Southwestern University
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