Beyond Diversity:

Courageous Conversations about Race

A two-day seminar hosted by The United Church of Canada

and presented by the Pacific Educational Group

When:                       April 16 - 17, 2013

See "Beyond Diversity" blog

Online Registration Now Available!

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Pastoral care is the official word for the support given by a congregation to a member of the church or community.

Basically, though, it is the connection that occurs when someone is hurting.

Sojourners has posted a provocative article from their May 2010 issue asking, "Is the Emerging Church for Whites Only?" The discussion about this article on Sojourners' website, as well as several other blogs, raises important questions and insights about diversity and the emerging church. Through these conversations, roiling at times, some potential new directions and areas of growth are beginning to emerge. And as they do, more attention is being given to the reality that the emerging church is more than just what is happening in North America and bigger than the handful of well-known writers and speakers who are associated with the movement.

"Is the Emerging Church for Whites Only?"
By Soong-Chan Rah and Jason Mach, with responses by Julie Clawson, Brian McLaren, and Debbie Blue.

Sojourners has also posted a number of additional responses on their God's Politics blog, including Shane Claiborne, Soong-Chan Rah, Jarrod McKenna, and Julie Clawson.

Other blogs dicussing the article:

Tony Jones: Emergent's White Problem.

Tall Skinny Kiwi: The Future

Today’s newspapers are full of stories about the changing face of Canada, including Statistics Canada’s projections that minorities will be majorities in two Canadian cities by 2031.

I am asking for people who know the Old and New Testaments to help me.

I have a web site www.accessiblechurch.ca that is about helping your Church become accessible, by bringing down barriers to church and inside churches.

The number one key words that  bring people to my site from search engines are bible verses, diversity, disability and inclusion.

I trust that Thanksgiving was a blessed time for you and yours, as it certainly was for me. I’m grateful for all of your posted insights about kinship with creation—a theme that seems most poignant at the height of our liturgical Season of Creation.

Here is a 1 hour lecture by a women with Autism. She is a best selling author, and in this video explains how autism can effect people, and simply explains the complexness of Autism Spectrum Disorders.It is from my web page www.accessiblechurch.ca, where I have many sorter videos by people in the ASD explain how it effects them.

I have always have trouble explaining autism and aspergers (a common type of High Functioning Asbergers). Whatever I read seems to be vague. However I recently realised that there were a lot of Youtube videos made by children, teens, and adults with Autism, Learning disabilities, and Aspergers.