Widening the Circle
Soul Matters Theme for February

“It’s not your job to come to the community and try to figure out how you can fit in. It’s the community’s job to figure out how we can stretch the community into the so-called margins to broaden its understanding and the ability to be inclusive. Our sense of inclusivity is not how do we make you a part of what we are but how do we become more of what you are. And extend ourselves out toward you.”

—  Rev. angel Kyodo williams
The Road to Diversity
Interview with by Lion’s Roar Staff,  November 10, 2011
 

Reverend angel Kyodo williams is a writer, activist, educator, ordained Zen priest,  the founder of the Center for Transformative Change and the leader of the New Dharma community.  She is the author of Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace, (2000), and the co-author with Lama Rod Owens, and Jasmine Syedullah, PhD.of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation, (2016).