Picking up a bit on yesterday's observation: You have to be human first...repeat, human first.
Not male, not white, not American...not even Christian.
Human.
From there, you can be the other things, too. But, if you don't start there, the other things seem to get skewed pretty quickly.
And, if you're worried about that identity prioritization, humans are made in the image of God. Human can (and should) reflect that image in how they relate to each other...to everything really.
This understanding informs our sensibility of what it actually means to be human…and what it looks like when we don’t.