From John Pavlovitz:
I’m sorry for failing you.
If you’re still sanctioning this President’s reprehensible words and his toxic behavior, either loudly or with your silence—I obviously didn’t get through to you.
If you’re still finding futile excuses or generating desperate whataboutisms or doing wild theological gymnastics to somehow justify any of the filth he daily disseminates—you never really got what I’d hoped you’d have gotten about following Jesus from our time together. You couldn’t have.
I was responsible with helping you cultivate a heart that echoed Christ’s kind, loving, generous heart—and it appears I’ve failed.
I failed to help you find a compassion for more than the people you see as “your own;” an empathy that transcended party or country or pigmentation.