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Eye on the world: Harmony amid diversity
In “Diversity as the destination” The Christian Science Monitor discusses negative effects of declining diversity in communities in the United States, due in part to the tendency of people to stay in neighborhoods and spend time with others who have similar beliefs, opportunities, and incomes. The Monitor points out that this kind of shift away from diversity “results in exclusivity and insularity and can touch off intertribal conflict. Neighborhoods and nations can’t afford that.”
Ideas on this subject:
From the Bible:
Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
—I Corinthians 12:4–6
God is no respecter of persons: But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
—Acts 10:34, 35
From the writings of Mary Baker Eddy:
The one Ego, the one Mind or Spirit called God, is infinite individuality, which supplies all form and comeliness and which reflects reality and divinity in individual spiritual man and things.
—Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 281
Identity is the reflection of Spirit, the reflection in multifarious forms of the living Principle, Love.
—Science and Health, p. 477
One infinite God, good, unifies men and nations; constitutes the brotherhood of man; ends wars; ….
—Science and Health, p. 340
Related articles from the Christian Science Sentinel and The Christian Science Monitor’s “A Christian Science perspective” column:
In “Diversity without fear”: “Since God is infinite Spirit, His qualities and ideas are infinite and can be expressed in an endless variety of ways; yet they never deviate from His pure and good nature…. And the more we approach life from this spiritual standpoint, the more open we are—indeed, eager—to see how other individuals, cultures, and nations are expressing man's inherent diversity and goodness.” And “Though we may be, to material sense, different—by reason of race, culture, nationality—through spiritual sense we can feel and experience our kinship as the offspring of Spirit.”
In “Supporting diversity”: “God, divine Principle, expresses the infinite diversity of His ideas, His children, and harmonizes them in lovely ways. Governed by this Principle, we aren’t just safe in relation to one another; we’re brought into constructive and beautiful relationships.” And “... God expresses Himself in radiant individuality.”
The articles above and others dealing with this subject can be found on JSH-Online.com or on CSMonitor.com.