Letters August 20, 2007 Issue

LETTERS

with contributions from HENRY G. RUTLEDGE, HEIDI SKOK, TERRY HOLLIDAY, LAURIE HUSSELBEE

The article, "Defying differences with love," by Annette Bridges in the July 2 issue ["You can never get outside of God"] is the key to world peace. How much more unity there would be in our churches and communities as well if everyone read and lived by this article. Annette describes how much of the disunity today starts in our childhood whenever we "choose sides" in a game, begin to "choose" friends, interests, pastimes, and then we tend to avoid what is "different."

This avoiding is transferred into our adult life when we watch only specific television channels, entertain merely family and our chosen friends—without giving a thought to our neighbors, to those of other religions, races, or lifestyles. Sociologists call this "groupthink," and it is a common, sometimes unhealthy trend in today's society. In other words, many of us are living in a secluded world of our own, an "ivory tower," so to speak.

How about an "outreachthink" for us to try for a change? The world is waiting for the blessings of Christian Science.

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