We Can Build a Beautiful City: A Free Society Requires Tolerance (Part Three)

This is the third of a four-part series called “We Can Build a Beautiful City.”

How do we build a beautiful city when we are so divided and increasingly hostile to each other? In this four-part series, I am seeking to address a set of challenges that will hinder our ability to rebuild our communities: outsourcing, ambivalence, intolerance, and tribalism.

There are solutions to each of these challenges that require courage and creativity.

1. The solution to outsourcing: Each of us must take personal responsibility for our collective freedoms
2. The solution to ambivalence: Each of us must hold firm and true to our personal beliefs
3. The solution to intolerance: Each of us must tolerate disagreement
4. The solution to tribalism: Each of us must desire to be a blessing to all

In the first part of this series, I proposed that each one of us, as individuals and as local people, need to take responsibility to solve those complex issues our governmental institutions cannot. Legislation has its limits. Further, our local communities should not be held captive to the divisive national rhetoric. We can and should tackle vital issues head-on together.