It is a spiritual practice of love in action.” “Conversation with others across difference is not just a nice thing to do. Create conversational communities to drive bridge building across the differences that simultaneously enrich and challenge us as a diverse, multi-cultural diocese, utilizing existing diocesan programs and resources as well as creating new onesĮngagement Across Difference: A Spiritual Practice of Love in Action.Compile and develop resources to increase connection to each other and our world, equipping us to more fully embrace the transforming power of God’s inclusive love.Expand our capacity as a diocese to expand relationships and deepen connections across differences in order to strengthen our shared commitment to follow Jesus.To choose not to choose between challenging systemic oppression in all its forms and respecting the dignity of every single human being.To understand better how barriers of class, race, language, nationality, culture, politics, geography, orientation, and identification blind us to the image of the divine in one another.To feed hearts that are hungry for connection and community in a secularizing, isolating age.”.To proclaim in Christ’s name that we will not submit to our era’s division and polarization.
To live more fully into our baptismal promise to respect the dignity of every human being.One in the Spirit is a diocesan wide initiative focused on increasing our capacity to expand relationships and deepen connections across differences in order to strengthen our shared commitment to follow Jesus.Ī response to the increasing polarization and deepening divisions in our church, our nation and our world, it is committed to equipping us to recover our deep connection to each other and to our world so we can participate more fully in the transforming work of love.
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