• Bridge Building and Border Crossing: We believe that healthy community, local and global, is possible by better understanding ourselves and others—something achievable only if we risk reaching out to our neighbors and even our enemies.

• Truth Telling: Whether through sacred text or contemporary conversation, we believe that powerful communication calls forth powerful action—that listening deeply and giving voice are the first steps to calling forth a new reality.

• Hope and Humility: We trust in the Divine—greater than all our imaginings and as close as the air we breathe—who offers hope even in the midst of conflict and despair.

• Tradition and Innovation: We can best solve challenges and seize opportunities when tradition steadies us through change and innovation liberates us from the limitations of the past.

• Celebration: Even in the face of great challenges, we delight in the small steps that carry us forward.

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