Inclusion

Embracing Inclusion Banishes Fear

Robert V. Taylor | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Claiming Your Voice, Gay Air Force Cadets, Inclusion, Beyond Fear, Sexual Orientation, Courage, Personal Growth, Emotional Health, Fearlessness, Personal Development, Becoming Fearless, Becoming-Fearless, Sexuality, Healthy Living News

My own fears were not about the people I loved rejecting me. They were all fears about those outside of my immediate circle of trust and love.... In naming and befriending my fears, their power to confine and define me was deflated.

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Spiritual Inclusionism: A Movement For The Masses

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Interfaith, Inclusive-Religion, Spiritual Inclusion, Inclusive Faith, Inclusion, Religion News

It's time for Spiritual Inclusionism: a movement dedicated to exercising God's love, compassion, kindness and all-inclusiveness whenever possible.

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Upending Political Vitriol

Robert V. Taylor | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Goodness, Political Discourse, Robert v. Taylor; Politics in America, Desmond Tutu, Inclusion, A New Way to Be Human, Politics News

Our culture and political process is adept at demonizing opposing points of view and candidates. What if, instead of accepting this as the norm, we embrace a proactive response that insists on a new discourse?

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Master Steps for the Dance of Diversity

Arva Rice | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Corporate Diversity, Inclusion, Diversity, Workplace Diversity, Money, Bv-Money, Black Voices News

Diversity is inviting everyone to the party. Inclusion is getting everyone to dance. I heard this adage from a retail executive discussing the difference between thinking diversity is important and integrating diversity into the very fabric of a corporation.

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Trusting Love Over Fear

Rev. Emily C. Heath | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Religious Violence, Churches, Otherside Lounge, Atlanta, Lgbt, Gay Rights, Inclusion, Eric Rudolph, Religion and Sexuality, Religion News

The people of faith in my life who dared to speak louder than the anti-gay voices around them made me believe that was true.

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Has Diversity Lived Up to Its Promise?

Laura Liswood | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Leadership, Organizational Culture, Inclusion, Diversity, Cultural Differences, Company Diversity, Diversity Office, Diversity Company, Workplace Diversity, Business News

My belief is that we need to move now to Diversity 2.0 and give managers and leaders the training, awareness, skill sets, tools that ensure we engage and capture the full benefit of the diversity we say we are so committed to.

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A Church Of The Future And It Is Good

Rev. Dr. Janet Edwards | Posted 10.22.2011

Read More: Religion, Lgbt, Jesus, Inclusion, Faith, Diversity, LGBT Equality, Christianity and Homosexuality, Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church, Religion and Sexuality, Inclusive Church, Christianity, Religion News

It was 1991 when the people of Mt. Auburn decided to declare themselves an inclusive church. They announced to the world they would begin to practice the same radical hospitality that Jesus did.

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How to Save Multiculturalism

Homa Sabet Tavangar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ghettoization, Arizona Immigration Law, David Cameron, Growing Up Global, Global Citizens, Nicolas Sarkozy, Immigration Reform, Egyptian Youth, Inclusion, Angela Merkel, GOOD.Is, Racism, Raising Global Citizens, Interfaith Understanding, Muslim, Diversity, Multiculturalism, World News

I'd like to see "multicultural" become a good word again, and disassociate it from failure, marginalization, and segregation before this weakens America. It begins in hearts and minds.

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Special Education Students Don't Need Me

Pamela Kripke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Special Education, Inclusion, Education News

If districts can't find salaries for additional Special Education teachers, the only experts who can effect change with these kids, they need to let the ones they've got take off their walking shoes.

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Inclusion Begins With 'Hello'

Deborah Plummer | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Race Relations, Inclusiveness, Community Engagement, Inspiration, Reaching Out, Inclusion, Healthy Living News

The cumulative effect of not being recognized, even after initiating a hello, is a slight that can feel like a result of racism, however benign the intentions might be.

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Remember, It's "We" the People

Terry Newell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Racism, U.S. Constitution, Inclusion, Diversity, Politics News

The face of America is changing, and that worries a lot of people. The United States is increasingly a multi-ethnic, multi-racial, multi-lingual soci...

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God's Covenant, Judaism and Interfaith Marriage

Paul Golin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marriage, Intermarriage, Chelsea Clinton, Inclusion, Judaism, Jewish, Interfaith, Rabbis, Interfaith Relationships, Jewish High Holidays, Religion News

The high rate of intermarriage can be seen as the defining opportunity to transform the Jewish community from an insular, tribal entity to a diverse and expanding peoplehood based on key common causes and beliefs.

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Friend Poaching: It's Complicated

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

QUESTION Dear Irene, I'm 45 years old and feel like a 7th grader due to a mutual friend situation. I have been good friends with two neighbors for o...

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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Responding to Arizona's Immigration Law

Kety Esquivel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Now, for the first time in my life, there is a level of fear for me attached with being -- and looking -- Latina. A few times now I have returned home during the day after realizing that I didn't have my U.S. passport on me.

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Health Care, Immigrants, and the Character of Our Country

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House, Law, Allison Johnson, Debate, Undocumented Immigrants, President Obama, Scripture, Media, Health Care Plan, Immigration, Immigrants, Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Legislation, Immigration Status, Faith Groups, Fact Checkers, Moral Obligation, Public Policies, Immigrant, Immigrant Children, Christian Scriptures, Members of Congress, Values, Pregnant Women, Policy Debate, Health Care Coverage, Moral Priorities, Teaching, Stranger, Safety Net, Health Care, Christians, Public Policy, Fear, Lying, Subsidies, Politics, Community, Basic Human Needs, Medicaid, Congress, Faith Communities, Migrants, Moral Issue, Reform Legislation, Moral Consideration, Compassion, Jewish, Moral Values, Moral Issues, Moral Mandate, Inclusion, Faith Community, Political Feasibility, Health Care Reform, Hospitals, Undocumented Immigrant, Legal Immigrants, Christian, Health Care System, Politics News

With an issue like health, the faith community has a unique and important role to play -- to define and raise the moral issues beneath the policy debate.

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Japanese-Jew Doesn't "Oy Veh" So Much Since Obama

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 11.17.2011

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Since Obama has become president, I feel comfortable as the multiracial shikseh that I am, and am engaging in thoughtful conversations about my heritage and background, without self-deprecation.

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Obama Will be one of Our Greatest Presidents

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unity, A New Day, The Greatness of the Man, Inclusion, Hope, Obama Presidency, Barack Obama, Politics News

Obama is consistent in the way he treats people, kind and personally humble. He lives by the code that those who lead must serve. He believes that. He lives it. He lived it long before he was in the public eye.

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