We Need Americans Who Love More Than Just Americans

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz Podcast · Jan 29, 2025 · 6m

These are days that test our belief systems.

I used to believe that all people were essentially the same; that across the diving lines of politics and religion, and beneath the surface veneer of native language and superficial labels that we were all really fighting for the same things.

I spent over two decades as a pastor, ministering under the assumption that we are all in this together, that we're all for one another, that at a heart level we're much more similar than we are different.

I don't know if I believe that any longer.

I'm meeting too many people right now in America who really…