A new beginning

It has certainly been a while since I've written anything here. I did make one attempt to make myself blog by asking my friends to send me questions which would require a response from me. Unfortunately I was not able to make myself blog on a regular basis. So, here I am now giving this blogging things one more shot. I am now assuming nobody reads this other than me and if you've stumbled onto this rambling, I apologize if it is boring.

What is multiculturalism?
My church is dealing with the reality of seeking to become multicultural. Of course, as we get deeper into it I realize how little the members of the church really know about the subject. This makes me wonder how prevalent this problem is in the "church world". My assumption is that very few churches know what multiculturalism is much less what it means to live with it.

I think the first major misunderstanding I have come across is the thought that awareness is the same as action. This is something our American society is very well versed in and something we see as the appropriate way to respond to problematic issues. We are very good at bringing awareness to our worlds. Please click on awareness to see a very good explanation of what I mean by that word as something we love. Awareness has become the best way we have to feel as though we are "doing something" without having our lifestyles suffer in the least. Awareness as action is the reason we buy bracelets or ribbons, etc. Of course, many would say that they do the "cancer walks" and various other activities related to that. However, these are things that are very rarely inconvenient and for the most part benefit us much more than the people actually suffering.

So, we are still left with the question of what IS multiculturalism.