“Tribalism is really a form of egoism. It’s all about my people, my religion, me, me, me.”

“Through love, tribes have been intermixing colors to reveal a new rainbow world. And as more time passes, this racial and cultural blending will make it harder for humans to side with one race, nation or religion over another.”

“And whenever people claim that one group is in, saved, accepted by God, forgiven, enlightened, redeemed- and everybody else isn’t- why is it that those who make this claim are almost always part of the group that’s “in”?”

“Often times when I meet atheists and we talked about the god they don’t believe in, we quickly discover that I don’t believe in that god either.”

“Drawing identity from any area other than the source of life is a spiritual death sentence, and worse, it’s contagious, because it gives birth to tribalism. However, when we return to our central identity of image-bearers designed to receive love from and reflect love to others, we are naturally invited to shed all of the unloving, fear-based tribal behaviors that come from loyalty to the label.”

“If you spend time with crazy and dangerous people, remember – their personalities are socially transmitted diseases; like water poured into a container, most of us eventually turn into – or remain – whoever we surround ourselves with. We can choose our tribe, but we cannot change that our tribe is our destiny.”