It seems fitting to share this TED talk today in light of the message Wes shared Sunday morning examining the themes of presumption and judgment.
Chimamanda Adichie is a novelist and she speaks compellingly about how we are quick to understand others through the narrow lens of a single story. As the website explains, she 'warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.'
Click to listen: The danger of a single story by Chimamanda Adichie
Matthew 7:1-5
Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
submitted by: Steph Vander Lugt
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