For Christena Cleveland, associate professor of the practice of reconciliation at Duke Divinity School, this is not just a matter of leadership but discipleship. “People can meet God within their cultural context, but in order to follow God, they must cross into other cultures because that’s what Jesus did in the incarnation and on the cross. Discipleship is crosscultural.”12 But Cleveland doesn’t stop there; she argues that in a changing world the very act of crossing cultural differences and dealing with our unspoken (and often even unacknowledged) biases, and the conflict it often creates,
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