Diversity and difference are some of my favourite things about the Christian community I’m part of. People from different places and backgrounds and experiences, with different languages, genders and traditions are continually practicing how to welcome, love and support one another.
Too often in our past our faith has been twisted into an excuse to hate another and take power for ourselves. Too often now that pattern continues.
Jesus warns in a parable that those who feel justified in their hate and divisions, one from another, have separated themselves from the God they claim to know.
The coming of Christ at Christmas is meant to break our ideologies and divisions and show us a uniting love.