“Belonging Comes First: a radical new approach to community” 

What if belonging were the starting point for community rather than the reward for fitting in? Diversity brings different people into the room. Inclusion invites participation. Belonging asks whether people can bring their full humanity into that room and help shape what happens there.

Rev. Dr. David Alexander explores a spiritual truth with practical consequences: we belong to one another before we agree with one another. Drawing on the New Thought vision of Oneness, he asks what it would take to build a community where welcome becomes relationship, participation becomes shared purpose, and mistakes become opportunities for repair.