Emphasis Preaching Journal

Society has never tolerated differences well. Differences threaten tradition, power structures, and hierarchies; differences challenge and bring the possibility of change. Change is seldom welcomed by those at society's core and almost always demanded by those on society's fringes. When the issues and the differences run deep enough, they can lead to war. Our own nation fought a Civil War over issues some would call moral and others economic. Probably slavery and states' rights had elements of both.