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Lia Rivamonte, Beloved Community Communications Team  Our faith community holds the idea of belonging at its core. We value knowing one another in all our fullness to forge deeper, more meaningful connections with one another in order to create an ever-widening sense of belonging. Today, despite the trappings of social media, we too often find ourselves living in a world of false connections, exclusion, social fragmentation, and isolation.
All Our Fullness (AOF) is an initiative from the Beloved Community Staff and Communications Teams that aims to make authentic connections among us by sharing our stories with each other about identity, encountering difference, and dreaming big. It was conceived as a means to help us make progress, however slight, towards what we so often refer to as the Beloved Community, a place in which we all feel safe and accepted, and where we can all breathe in a true sense of belonging. With this in mind, we warmly invite you to share your personal story in answer to one of the following questions and to which there is no right or wrong answer: (1) When did you become aware of your own cultural identity? (2) When was a time you encountered difference; what difference did it make? (3) What stirs your yearning for multicultural community? We welcome videos (2 minutes or less, artwork, or your written response (300 words max.) via the online form. We are grateful in advance for your participation. Responses will be shared with the congregation on Unity’s website and/or commUNITY in the coming weeks. Please note that your contribution may be edited for length, clarity, or typos. Feel free to direct any questions about AOF to: [email protected]
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March 2025
Beloved Community Staff TeamThe Beloved Community Staff Team (BCST) strengthens and coordinates Unity’s antiracism and multicultural work, and provides opportunities for congregants and the church to grow into greater intercultural competency. We help the congregation ground itself in the understanding of antiracism and multiculturalism as a core part of faith formation. We support Unity’s efforts to expand our collective capacity to imagine and build the Beloved Community. Here, we share the stories of this journey — the struggles, the questions, and the collaborations — both at Unity and in the wider world.
The current members of the Beloved Community Staff Team include Rev. Kathleen Rolenz, Rev. KP Hong, Rev. Lara Cowtan, Drew Danielson, Laura Park, Lia Rivamonte and Angela Wilcox. |
