Tag: diversity

Let’s Keep The Baby…

Marilyn shares about the shocking deconstruction of faith as they knew it in the first century.  The rules changed with the new covenant.  We have been trying to figure out what that means ever since.  She shares from her own story of faith and belief transitions how she has thrown the baby out with the bathwater sometimes.  Her hope and challenge to all of us is to continue to learn how we can hold a beautiful space of diversity built around some core shared values, and remind each other of the beautiful healthy parts of our faith journeys we don’t want to let go of.

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2 birds at a bird bath

A Tale of Two Cities

On this Pentecost Sunday, good friend and frequent guest at SCC, Bradley Jersak, gave some background on the Holy Spirit and then shared how the outpouring of the Holy Spirit recorded in Acts 2 created a unity based on respectful listening and speaking that preserves diversity as opposed to the monolithic and proud empire of Babel. He closed by inviting the Spirit to transform our own listening and speaking today.

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Welcome in many languages

Diversity, Inclusion and Interdependence

Jess Williams begins sharing about the four “core longings” that the Imagination Team heard from those that they interviewed on their hopes for the SCC community. The first is the longing for continued growth in diversity and inclusion, and Jess connected our need for diversity with Jesus’ emphasis on including the marginalized and on the interdependence that is named for us so well in 1 Corinthians 12.

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