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Robert C. Koehler: Love thy neighbor: A national conversation

Can we form a circle big enough to fit 330 million Americans? Do we have enough folding chairs? I don’t know, but somehow we’ve got to launch a national conversation about ... war, security, guns, fear and, oh God, the global future.

Ultimately, we need to pull the whole planet into it — this is, after all, one planet, not 193 separate entities — but a circle of Americans, citizens of the most militarized and, perhaps, fearful nation on Earth, is a good place to start. We have to reach into our collective soul, folks!

“In a small courtroom in Liberty, Missouri, Andrew

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