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Embracing Diversity: A Practice of Belonging

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  The phrase “One Family Indivisible” serves not to flatten difference, but to honor it. Diversity is not a challenge to be managed—it is a gift to be received. It invites a deeper understanding of humanity, belonging, and love. Unity does not require uniformity. It calls for presence across languages, generations, abilities, and beliefs. It asks for listening beyond comfort, for releasing the need to be right, and for leaning into the grace of authenticity. To embrace diversity is to welcome contradiction. It means sitting with stories that unsettle familiar narratives. It means recognizing that spiritual kinship often begins where certainty ends. Communities are not unified by sameness, but by the ongoing choice to show up for one another—in the messy, beautiful work of relationship. a post inspired by  One Family Indivisible  by Steven Greenebaum Book Description: Throughout history we have divided ourselves into groupings of "us" and "them".  One Family: In...

Author in the News: Gewanda Parker talks about the essentiality of community

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  Gewanda Parker, author of  It Only Hurts When I Can't Run , talks about the essentiality of having a community, especially in hard times in a recent video.  Short and worth watching! A paperback edition of Gewanda's book is available at the  MSI Press webstore . For more posts about Gewanda and her book, click  HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow MSI Press on  X ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Interested in receiving a free copy of this or any MSI Press LLC book  in exchange for  reviewing  a current or forthcoming MSI Press LLC book? Contact editor@msipress.com. Want an  author-signed copy  of this book? Purchase the book at 25% discount (use coupon code FF25) and concurrently send a written request to orders@msipress.com. Want to communicate with one of our authors? You can! Find their ...