Mike's perspective: labels, identity, and loving people you don't understand

• How can I better love people whose life experiences I don't understand?

The host addressed in the audio as Mike delivers 'Mike's perspective': reading the book I Am N about persecuted Christians and hearing TV criticism about race in America, he admits he is bad at loving people whose lives he doesn't understand - a black man in America, a Muslim American, a woman - and is tired of his first thought being the stereotype he grew up with. The hosts discuss how broad descriptions ('you don't know what it's like to be X') can be both true and used as weapons, how labels let people attack faceless groups instead of knowing individuals, and how Christianity uniquely calls for giving up personal identity into Christ rather than asserting uniqueness - illustrated by a Brad Pitt GQ quote reducing Christianity to dos and don'ts. The younger co-host adds the college view: campus culture splits between people militant about redefining identity and people too scared to talk about it, citing a heated marriage-and-family-class debate over gender and orientation.