Dr. Beatrice Bruteau asks the right question: "How big is your we?" Can we expand our vision of community beyond our own skin, family, race, tribe, culture, country, and species? Spiritual life is more than what we believe, it also includes how we relate. Who is included in the we and who is not? That is both a spiritual and a political question. How we answer it will likely determine our future.

Jim Wallis in Who Speaks for God? An Alternative to the Religious Right - A New Politics of Compassion, Community, and Civility by Jim Wallis

 

To Practice This Thought:
Get to know someone from a different group in your community.

 

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