Tag: Church Leadership
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Don’t talk too much!
The Living the Faith event held at Ryerson United Church last Saturday – thanks Dan, Debra and Pamela! – lifted up a few things for me. 1. While the Emerging Spirit team feels we have been immersed in this stuff for a long time, it comes as news to many. For most people at the…
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A Way to Change Your Viewpoint
In Emerging Spirit we have explored and presented a great deal about change. We have covered the bases: types of change – developmental, transitional and transformational; paradigms of cosmic societal change – modern to (post) post modern; Christian to post Christian; denominational to post denomination; Gutenberg to post-Gutenberg. Enough to make my head spin and…
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What’s the big deal about leadership? How hard can it be?
No one ever says it out loud but sometimes the question hovers. What really makes leadership such a challenge in these times? I have been making a list. This is what I have so far. Clarity Whether people choose to use the Ron Heifeitz language of adaptive challenge or not, the key observation remains that…