Deep Roots, Wide Reach Journeying into the Heart of Christ March 11-14, 2006 Columbus, Ohio.

Deep Roots, Wide Reach

Journeying into the Heart of Christ

March 11-14, 2006Columbus, Ohio

Diversity

The condition of being diverse Diverse: differing from one

another, composed of distinct or unlike elements of qualities

(Merriam Webster)

Fasting Growing groups:

Asian population 43%--10.8 million

Hispanic population 38.8 %--31.3 million

How many customs and languages can we accommodate?

Spanish Russian Tagalong Jainism Muslim Hindu

…came across the Atlantic

Spanish and French Catholics British Anglicans and Quakers Sephardic Jews Dutch reform Christians

Diversity broadened Africans brought with slave trade

were Muslims Chinese and Japanese fortune

mines and fields of the West brought mixture of Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian traditions

Eastern European Jews Irish and Italian Catholics

Came from…

Christian and Muslim immigrants from Middle East

Sikhs settled in Central and Imperial Valley of California

Immigrants last three decades

Buddhists—Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, China and Korea

Hindus—India, East Africa, Trinidad Muslims—Indonesia, Bangladesh,

Pakistan, Middle East, Nigeria Sikhs and Janis –India Zoroastrians –India and Iran

Picture of church sign

Wide range of religious faith

India’s range of religions China’s range of religions Latin American range of religions Africa’s range of religions

Slide picture of India times

Diversity Activity

Blue and Yellow Game

Diversity Categories Culture Religion Age Political views Body Image Socio-Economic status Gender Sexual Orientation Marital Status

Matthew 5:14

…You are the light of the world”

Matthew 28:18-20

…”Go therefore and make disciples of all nations…”

Mark 4:22-23

“…For there is nothing secret except to be made visible, nothing is except to come to the light. Anyone who has ears to hear ought to hear…”

Ephesians 2:19

“…So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the holy ones and members of the household of God…”

Church—Traditional modelChurch—Biblical Model

Club Disciples of Jesus

spectators Participants, minister

Democracy: Election Theocracy of God

Programs Meetings all time

Local church Body

Want Need

Feel comfortable Demands

Conditional Unconditional

Constitution of the United States of America

“We the people of the United States of America…”

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Picture of Hospital chapel

What Would Jesus Do?

Picture of Nina, Pinto Santa Maria

Latest census trends

Hispanics now the largest minority group

Blacks second place Asian population continues to grow

Healthcare diversity

Healthcare Availability of services Health insurance Education Socioeconomic status Health practices

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Case Studies

Case presentation Readings, concepts, ideas Questions for discussing the case Objectives of case

New England Journal of Medicine: February 25, 1999

Reveals that racial and gender bias may still play a role in influencing physicians decision making

Mind, Body And Spirit

Emancipation Proclamation: 1863

…freed the slaves, the Unions victory in the Civil War ensured that their freedom would be carried out

Civil Rights Act: 1964

…secured civil liberties to Americans regardless of gender, race, ethnicity and religious or political affiliation

Discrimination:

…based on social status, religious beliefs, physical appearance, or national identity …

Is a universal reality

Racism

Is viewed as a form of idolatry … incompatible with Christian theology

Prayer: Above all trust in the slow work of the

Holy One. We are quite naturally, impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stage. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new; and yet it is the law of all progress…that it is made by passing through some stages of instability…and that it may take a very long time.

And so it is with us. Our ideas mature gradually. Let them grow, let them shape themselves without undue haste. Don’t try to force them on…for tomorrow cannot emerge any more quickly.

Only God can say what this new spirit, gradually forming within you will be.

Give the Holy One the benefit of believing that God’s hand is leading you and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete. Teilhard de Chardin

Bibliography Spirituality, Health and Wholeness: An introductory

Guide for Health Care Professionals, Siroj Soajjakool and Henry Lamberton, 2004, Haworth Press

A New Religious America: How a “Christian Community” has now become the World’s most Religiously Diverse Nation, Diana L. Eck, 2001, Harper San Francisco

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: Video: Many Faces in God’s House, Global Solidarity, In

the Footsteps of Jesus, Who are my Sisters and Brothers

Pastoral Letters: Strangers No Longer, A Pastoral Letter Concerning Migration: Called to Welcome the Stranger Among us, Unity in Diversity

“…It’s in everyone one of us to be wise, find your heart,

Open up both your eyes, We can all know everything

without ever knowing why…”

thank you, gracias, merci, dank u wel, grazi…