Discernment
Five resources to help your vestry, bishop’s committee, or other leadership group take a productive and life-giving retreat.
Prayerfully pour your heart out over a keyboard or a pad of paper. Whether it’s a paragraph or a trilogy, whether your story involves trauma or joy, loss or success, profound experience with God or unanswered questions about …
So how can we learn to better receive, listen, and learn from those around us? How can we start to hear God through the people we serve?
Zacchaeus and the many Saints we honor this day compel us to examine our lives, to see if our trajectory is leading us to more holy lives or farther away.
How might we witness to that spirit of anamnesis at this fraught moment in our own country?
In between our soaring Sunday worship services, how is your congregation helping people become familiar with Individual spiritual practices designed to draw us closer in relationship to our triune God?
The work of discernment asks the leadership to consider slowing down the process and allowing the congregation to enter a more substantial conversation.
Tuesday, Nov. 8 will be here soon, and one person will become our next President. What I’m praying for, right now, is the wisdom to face well the days after Election Day.
Ministry isn’t an intellectual, theoretical exercise. Ministry involves real people living real lives in real time, and, like it or not, I am also one of those people – not better or different or more or less capable of anyon…