Thank You for Being Late<\/a><\/em>, he\u00a0tells a story relayed to him by Lawrence Summers. Summers\u00a0had flown into Chicago for an event in 1988. The car that picked him up from the airport had a telephone in it. A carphone was such a novel idea back then that Summers picked it up and called his wife and every friend he could think of to brag about it.\u00a0Fast forward nine years later Summers was headed to\u00a0a remote village in the Ivory Coast as part of his duties as Deputy Treasury Secretary. As he was stepping into the back of a dugout canoe an Ivory Coast official handed him a cellphone and said, \u201cWashington has a question for you.\u201d<\/p>\nIn just nine years Summers had gone from being blown away by the presence of a car phone, to nonchalantly using a cellphone from\u00a0the back of a dugout canoe in rural Abidjan.<\/p>\n
The point is this: the rate of change is not only incredibly fast, it\u2019s global. In previous eras societies could go\u00a0several centuries without having to deal with the\u00a0rate of change we now experience. In a span of 5 to 7\u00a0years entire technological platforms are invented, packaged, sold\u00a0until they reach global saturation, and become obsolete. That\u2019s how long you get. About 5 to 7 years and then you have to re-imagine your job and your place in a world\u00a0who\u2019s pace has hit unprecedented\u00a0speeds.<\/p>\n
The hard reality is this:\u00a0the pace of change is far outpacing the ability of many of our citizens to adapt, especially white, straight, educated men and women. This group is simply not equipped to having to make these kinds of wholesale adaptations to a quickly changing\u00a0environment. We want the old environment back again.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why the crucial\u00a0word in President Trump\u2019s winning\u00a0campaign slogan was not America <\/em>or even\u00a0Great.<\/em> The key to the slogan\u2019s appeal was the word: again.\u00a0<\/em>Again<\/em> is an appeal to the old environment, a promise to turn back the clock and reembody a bygone era in which middle class, white, educated, straight, married, men (mostly)\u00a0could control the rates of change, and make sure\u00a0those changes would benefit their own group.<\/p>\nHowever, the promise of \u201cagain\u201d is unrealistic. The factors driving the speed of cultural change are the toothpaste that can\u2019t be put back in the tube.<\/p>\n
The most incredible wall on the planet won\u2019t stop globalization. You\u2019d have to dismantle the internet to make that happen. Manufacturing jobs are not coming back\u00a0unless that whole sector rejects technology and automation. Global warming is real. Whether or not one believes human carbon emissions are causing it, we are still going to have to adapt to the frightening changes in the earth\u2019s climate.<\/p>\n
There is no again<\/em>, there is only today, and a future that will either be better or worse depending upon our ability to work together in good faith.<\/p>\nThe reality is that everyone\u2014left, right, or center\u2014is going to have to\u00a0embrace words that have so much more power than the word again<\/em>. Words like:\u00a0Reimagine. Invent. Adapt. Change. Learn. These are the words that will lead the way forward.\u00a0Community. Friendship. Forgiveness. Grace. Mercy. The future will belong to those who learn to live by words such as these, those who can work together\u00a0and live together as one funky and diverse community. Nature loves diversity and it\u2019s incredibly adaptive and resilient. We could take a page from nature\u2019s book.<\/p>\nThe truth is, there will be no making America great again. There will only be making America anew\u2026 again, and again\u2013reimagining a future in which we are not building walls, but rather building communities of cooperation, friendship, forgiveness, and justice. \u201cThe definition of America is up for grabs,\u201d Brooks says. It will not be determined by identity politics. It\u2019s going to take a global agenda.\u00a0That\u2019s the America we have to make. There is no again. There is only anew.<\/p>\n
Christian theology is incredibly suited for this endeavor. Jesus was all about new life, new creation, and new beginnings. The promise of Christianity is that we believe there will be a future day in which\u00a0there is no more brokenness, no more death and decay, and Peace<\/em> will rule every corner of existence. We believe that this future day has come crashing back\u00a0into the present world\u00a0in and through Christ. God\u2019s peace is exploding into the world anywhere people allow themselves to be part of the body of Christ, the church. There are no limits to this peace, and anyone who wants can be a part of it.<\/p>\nThat\u2019s not a a story of \u201cagain.\u201d That\u2019s a story of anew, the brand-new, the future of God, breaking into the present day. That\u2019s the Christian story. That\u2019s the story I want to live in.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>\u201cAll the big things that were once taken for granted are now under assault.\u201d That\u2019s a quote from an article by David Brooks<\/a> in today\u2019s NYTimes<\/em> explaining why he believes the women\u2019s march this past weekend will ultimately fail to\u00a0be an effective opposition to Donald Trump\u2019s administration. The reason, Brooks says, is that\u00a0marches have been\u00a0focused on narrow sub-issues, while ignoring\u00a0the mother of all issues for the entire world today: Ethnic<\/em> Populism<\/em>.<\/p>\n