Ours is an era of tension and violence, as the Modern Worldview, which came to dominate muchof the planet in the past three hundred years, is found to be unjust, inhumane even to those who are its beneficiaries, and unsustainable—to the extent that it now elicits nihilism and even terrorism (among those local and abroad, from all kinds of communities). At the same time, a new worldview— sometimes referred to as a Relational Worldview—is struggling to emerge (Rowe, 2012). The Relational Worldview is challenging because it requires human beings to grow into a lifeway oriented to continuous growth within a pluralistic environment of mutual thriving. Challenge is accentuated by the fact that so many people are swept up in an almost automatic defensive-aggressive retreat from a public life which has become fearful and dangerous, into fundamentalism, nativism, and terrorism.