Idaho faith leaders and human rights groups mobilize support after University of Idaho closes diversity programs, including the 50-year-old Women's Center, sparking concerns about student support and inclusion.
August 17 marks the 30th anniversary of Unity in the Community in Downtown Spokane. The story describes how organizers plan to Celebrate diversity and unity with a fun-filled event for all!
As a Lay Chaplain, with empathy having opened the door and now standing or seated beside the bed of someone less a stranger, I continue to listen with deep attentiveness.
I ask myself, was I able to effectively engage this diversity, to the extent I did, because I had empathy – somehow already endowed with it? Or did my empathy grow as I continued to engage diversity, in high school, college and professionally – is empathy somehow learned?
Familiarity helps us feel safe and included but it does not make us more creative and imaginative, being immersed in different cultures and surround by and interacting with people different from ourselves does that