Let me tell you about an experience, perhaps you had it too. The night of the concert, the hall was packed. The social distinctions of race, age, class, sexual orientation and gender are easily used as barriers that prevent us from community. And how easily these distinctions become permeated with stereotypes and fears that grow out of childhood ignorance, media portrayals and daily experiences and conversations. The projections we create become obstacles standing in the way of community at-onement.
Diversity offers the spiritual gift of wholeness.
And achieving diversity means commitment. But it does work. The challenge of affirming and creating diversity occurs simultaneously from several approaches. So far, I have talked about it at the congregational level in addition to Unitarian Universalism becoming a worldwide movement. Joseph Campbell put it another way.