De Beer, Stephanus Francois2017-06-012017-06-012016-11-18De Beer, S., 2016, ‘Practising chaordic beauty: On embracing strangers in one inner city faith community’, HTS Teologiese Studies/ Theological Studies 72(1), a3523. http://dx.DOI. org/ 10.4102/hts.v72i1.3523.0259-9422 (print)2072-8050 (online)10.4102/hts.v72i1.3523http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60738In this article I read one inner city faith community – the Tshwane Leadership Foundation (TLF) – through the lenses of literature that reflects on chaordic organisations and chaordic leadership. I explore whether an emphasis on the management of diversity, which is widespread in organisational and ecclesial practices and languages, should not be replaced with a spirituality of vulnerable embrace, as I discover it in this specific faith community. It is a spirituality that combines an invitation and radical embrace of diversity, and a dance with chaos, with a posture of vulnerability and a vision of justice. I bring the reflections of community members in TLF on difference and diversity in their organisation, in conversation with scholars contemplating chaordic organisations and chaordic leadership. I then wonder whether their emphasis on embrace instead of management does not open up the possibility of retrieving and affirming the hidden beauties and potentialities mediated by diversity, which is, I suggest, to practise ‘chaordic beauty’.en© 2016. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.Tshwane leadership foundation (TLF)Chaordic beautyDiversityJusticeInner cityFaith communityTheology articles SDG-10SDG-10: Reduced inequalitiesTheology articles SDG-11SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communitiesTheology articles SDG-16SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutionsArticle