The following comment appeared in the Sojourners sojomail last week. It seems that Ted Kennedy was able to hold together the tension between passion for what he believed in and the maintenance of strong relationships across party lines. This sounds like what we are aiming for in New Thing.
Martin
"[The]... genuine and generous outpouring of love and concern for Sen. Kennedy proves a very important thing. It shows that one can be an advocate, a passionate and relentless champion for clear and controversial causes, and yet still be a bridge-builder, a reconciler, and a seeker of common ground. The conventional wisdom says you must be one or the other, an advocate or a bridge-builder, but never both. Ted Kennedy, once again, proves the conventional wisdom wrong. It is because he is a lawmaker who genuinely wants to get things done, to find real and concrete solutions -- especially for people who really need them. Kennedy is known as a senator who truly wants to be effective and not just right, as so many others, on both sides of the aisle, are too often content to be." [Source Sojomail 22-5-08]
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