About the Author: Jim Steen
I'm going to tell you a little about myself by way of introduction and how I happened to get into the work that I do - of working primarily with congregations and occasionally with other religious organizations around issues of human differences. For about 15 years, I was the rector of a church in Washington, D.C., an Episcopal church, and that church, when I went there in 1979, was a very - I would call it - monochromatic congregation. It was interesting. Everyone liked to talk about how much we valued our diversity, but there was none to be identified.
