"Red and Blue Make Purple: Kindness"

Today we begin a bold and brave worship series in which we face the spiritual consequences of the divisions in our society. I want to ask you a mind-blowing question: Did you know that more than 99% of our DNA is the same from one human to another? This surely makes us kin. The word “kindness” originally developed from a root word that meant “family” or “with the feeling of relatives for each other.” We begin this series considering the implications of spending so much of our time feeling estranged from, and resentful toward, those whose less than 1% DNA moves them in a different direction from us. And we begin to dream of finding a “purple space” in which to exchange goodness.