Doesn’t exist nearly as much in the Kingdom of God as we’d like to believe. Our world runs on such dichotomies, but not God’s world.
I hesitate to speculate as to why this is, but I have a hunch: It’s because either / or always results in us / them.
Dichotomies are divisive, not inclusive. They separate rather than unify. They wound rather than mend. They create winners and losers. They instill superiority and inferiority complexes. They introduce more problems than they solve. They are reductionist rather than accepting of complexity.
Instead, the Kingdom of God tends to be both / and. Occasionally, neither / nor. In any case, the Kingdom regularly challenges our simplistic and tribe-affirming dichotomies.
