Embracing Diversity Leadership in

Explore a variety of approaches congregations have taken to embrace differences; identify leadership issues diversity creates in congregations; and discover programmatic suggestions drawn from the experience of multicultural congregations to address these issues. This book helps readers to understand their own experience with racial and cultural differences and is a guide for gathering diverse people into the life and mission of the congregation.

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction

ix

Purpose

ix

Background

x

Overview

xvi

Embracing Differences

1

(20)

``Are There Any Other Congregations Like This One?''

2

(5)

Catalysts to Practices That Embrace

7

(6)

Facing Resistance

13

(8)

Negotiating Differences

21

(28)

Congregations: What Are They?

21

(2)

Becoming Church

23

(13)

Dynamics of Power in Negotiating Difference

36

(13)

Congregational Ties

49

(25)

A Linking Practice

49

(5)

Welcoming Strangers

54

(7)

Gathering Strangers into Community

61

(4)

A Company of Strangers

65

(7)

An Activity to Implement Insights from this Chapter

72

(2)

Congregational Conversation

74

(26)

Conversation as a Practice

74

(8)

Empowering Speech

82

(1)

Legitimating Speech

83

(9)

Accepting Ambiguity

92

(4)

An Activity to Implement Insights from this Chapter

96

(4)

Congregational Events

100

(16)

The Ordering of Congregational Practices

100

(6)

Characteristics of Event-Centered Congregations

106

(10)

Leadership in Multicultural Congregations

116

(13)

Transformative Leadership

117

(2)

Anticipatory Leadership

119

(1)

Relational Leadership

120

(3)

Leadership and Power

123

(6)

Notes

129

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Embracing Diversity Leadership in Multicultural Congregations

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