*On June 16, 1858, as tumult multiplied across the nation, Abraham Lincoln delivered a speech to the Illinois Republican State Convention after garnering the Republican nomination to run for the U.S. Senate against Democratic incumbent Stephen A. Douglas. His address captured the essence of the tremendous chasm confronting the country. Advised by his circle that his chosen oration was too incendiary, he trusted both his logic and his conscience in spite of their hesitation and behind the wisdom of the New Testament admonition, “a house divided against itself cannot stand“, foretold that the matter at hand must and would be righted.
The “house“ may be a nation, it may be an enterprise, a church, a family, even an individual.
And while each man and each coalition of men inevitably faces conflict and disagreement, often times dire, wisdom counsels that both perspectives to a conflict or a juxtaposition cannot be equally supported or equally valid.
So, war came…
*https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/house.htm
ahousedivided.net recognizes that a man and a body of men shall not be coerced into a consensus of shared perspective; that a man’s perspective is solely his responsibility; that a perspective must be grounded in truth; that differences in perspectives and value systems may only be turned one mind at a time – with reflection and thoughtful challenging.
Or war comes.
We are committed to a value system of truth and timeless principles, of Judeo-Christian perspective and the American essence of individual sovereignty.
It is not in our purview to provide answers but to foster self-reflection.
