Talk to people with whom you disagree.

Better: talk to really clever people with whom you profoundly disagree.

Better yet: talk to people who are cleverer than you AND who seem to be acting in good faith, but with whom you profoundly disagree.

Then do it again. & again.

That& #39;s how we learn.

That& #39;s how we test our ideas.

That& #39;s how we discover that not everyone who disagrees with us is stupid or morally abhorrent.

It doesn& #39;t mean that truth isn& #39;t truth. Very clever people of good will can still be very wrong. But let& #39;s hear them out.

We Christians are called to love our enemies. We& #39;re called to love people even if they& #39;re out to kill us – literally. We should be the first people eager to listen to opposing views & the last people willing to burn others at the ideological stake.

We must always be ready to give a reason for the hope that we have. But we must do that with gentleness & respect (1 Peter 3:15) not with anger & contempt.