Building the Beloved Community

This course addresses the need to create flourishing communities that are sensitive to the requirements for human and ecologically sustainability. In seeking to build the Beloved Community, the course offers a Community Engagement component that encourages the pursuit of meaning, commitment to truth-seeking pluralism, and first-person engagement through participation in community dialogues. Through the Service Learning component this course seeks to identify and build upon those values through interracial, intergenerational and interfaith conversations with our Community Partners, and other community stakeholders. Writings from several inclusive thinkers are used to brings diverse perspective into a harmonious whole.