Pace e Bene – 15 September 2024

“Love of the enemy means that a fundamental attack must first be made on the enemy status. How can this be done? Does it mean merely ignoring the fact that he belongs to the enemy class? Hardly. For lack of a better term, an ‘unscrambling’ process is required. . . . The concept of reverence for personality, then, is applicable between persons from whom, in the initial instance, the heavy weight of status has been sloughed off. Then what? Each person meets the other where he* is and treats him as if he were where he ought to be.”—Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited