President Biden's Health Announcement and the Cancer of Tribalism

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz Podcast · May 20, 2025 · 3m

There are moments when you’re reminded just how far people around you have drifted from the plot of humanity, when you realize how poisoned by politics your family members, friends, and neighbors have become; the capacity for cruelty of those you share a country with.

As President Biden and his family revealed the grim details of his Stage 4 metastasizing prostate cancer diagnosis, they came flooding from the virtual woodwork, rushing to add their grotesque insults to his grievous injuries—and it’s something that would have never happened ten years ago.

A moment that in any other past…