I wrote the following article at the request of the Order of Ecumenical Franciscans, as part of a series of articles on cultivating community committed to the “ongoing work of living lives of mutual care and accountability as a community.” It is lightly edited.
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The first article in this series brought our attention to human diversity as
“a source of tremendous richness.” And that's appropriate and wonderful, because there’s a lot to celebrate!
But there’s also this other thing, the “ongoing work of living
lives of mutual care and accountability as a community.” Because we
can also stumble over the differences.
