The Search for Common Ground

David Morgen

"The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste" (6).

Goodness is the essential nature of humanity and all creation

How can it be that life is on the side of unity, when there is so much destruction everywhere we look?

Racial Memory

The Search Into Beginnings

"In these two creation accounts, the starting point for man on earth is a situation that is orderly, whole, complete, integrated--a climate of community. This is the great racial assumption about the origin of man and the living context in which he is to grow" (24).