There was no expectation that positions would change, only that persons would be willing to listen and truly hear. Two remaining meetings, scheduled for November, will conclude the series with a final report on the process and outcome to follow. Md. After tracing the long history of spiritual discernment in the Bible, early church practice and Quaker communities, the authors offer three basic assumptions needed to undertake Spiritual Discernment. It moves groups from majority decision to consensus . Discussion is differentiated from dialogue because the former is based on assumptions, while the later suspends assumptions so that the open flow can lead to new insights and meaning.
Discernment takes time, commitment and testing but in the end results in a concurrence of thinking.
A Spirituality for Leadership in a Multi Cultural Community, Eric H. F. Law, Chalice Press, St Louis. Law, an Asian American Episcopal priest says that trying to be multicultural is often like inviting a Chinese to dinner and serving chop suey and egg fu yung, well intended but missing the mark.