O my brother, my sister, educate yourselves in the school of Christ. The church is meant to be a good and secure home in which understanding, tolerance, and support are in evidence. It must be seen as a determined objective that has to be worked at, and not left to chance or something that comes of itself. We have it in what holds us together as one body. And we have it in our shared history and tradition.
Unity is deep.
It is not made up of a loose collection of segments. Unity is intrinsic and indivisible. Uniformity is an unnatural collection of many segments pushed together that may impose a strain on our fundamental unity, unless we are open and strong enough to allow room for the variance that is there. We are all children of our culture, and the accompanying diversity should not be a threat to anyone. Rather, diversity is a matter of beauty and complementary fulfillment.