The Jeremiah Project
There are so many things that divide us. Like spotlights focused on the things that make us different. These spotlights create categories, labels. Then these labels segregate us into groups of people that think like us, look like us, sound like us, worship like us, vote like us, love like us…and on it goes. Before long, everyone who is not one of “us” becomes labeled as “them”. Life becomes neatly sorted. Us. Them. Other.
We fear “Other”. We avoid Other. We blame Other. We build walls and lock doors to keep Other out. Other is bad. Obviously.
Unless Other is not as bad as we think. Unless Other is not actually bad at all.
What if we found out that everyone—Us, Them, Other—is much more alike than different? What if we looked below the surface and found out that everyone goes to bed at night with the same fears, wakes up with the same expectations, loves their family the same, and likes the same kind of ice cream? This seems like a better place to focus the spotlights.
And this is what the Jeremiah Project is designed to do. The goal of the project is to change the spotlights, to take the focus off of the exterior things that separate us and onto the internal things we all have in common—from the big life questions to simple day to day experiences. Hopefully, this will help us see one another as much more alike than different and help us become less likely to fear each other and more likely to see the Other as Family.
So let’s begin. We invite you to take 20 minutes and complete the survey by clicking the link below. We know this is a lot of your time. Much longer than the social media surveys we take for entertainment. But changing the focus of the social and racial spotlights is not an easy thing to do. That is why we need your help. Your answers--and the answers of 1000 others--will help refocus the spotlights and start a new conversation. We thank you in advance for making this possible.