"What the world needs now is love, sweet love."

Oh, boy! Does the world ever need love now! “What the World Needs Now is Love,” a popular song from the 1960s, was written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach. The song is as timely today as it was during the tumultuous decade of the 1960s—a time of divisiveness, prejudice, hatred, and violence.

Today, in the United States and in other countries, there seems to be an increasing culture of divisiveness, bigotry, hatred, and violence. Many people have become distrustful and fearful of those who are different—different because of race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or ability. It seems tha...