Are There Limits to Civility?

A Serious Question in Our Time

I believe in civility in word and in action. I believe that civility should be the norm, the default context in which we human beings deal with each other; and that should be the case above all in the church. In his first letter to the Corinthians, St. Paul states,

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It do…