Thank you!  I am working with a local church to define their values as a congregation, and this is a topic that has come up recently.  We spent over 3 hours discussing the relative merits of the following words and their meanings:

Tolerance, acceptance, inclusive, and embracing.  The team all wanted to step into the power of the word embracing, but could not move beyond the word inclusive.  They did not think their congregants would be comfortable going futher than that, nor did they think the leadership of the church would step into it.

What strikes me, is how can you create the human connection without all the traits and skills you speak of, and without embracing the humanity of each individual.  I saw another post yesterday dealing with much the same issue, from a different direction.

Very thought provoking.  Thank you.

Georgia