Dear King’s students and alumni, we need to talk.

We need to talk about our community because of the elephant in the room: many of us struggle to live faithfully in exercising wisdom, courage, and respect when it comes to gossip and social media. This is not a new problem, but it recently resurfaced around my choice to lecture without a facemask or face shield last week. We can have a conversation about the merits or demerits of my choice, but that is not the problem I am addressing here.