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  • Cuidado con una tecnología de derechos adquiridos ✓
    Una joven que había pedido tiempo en la agenda de la junta parroquial fue directamente al grano: “Hablo en nombre de aquellos a quienes no nos gustan los cambios en el culto”.
  • No More Parking Lot Conversations ✓
    Highly functioning, fruitful vestries are built on transparency and respect.
  • Tone Matters ✓
    In “Tone Matters,” Scott Gunn looks at how poor communications can cause hurt feelings and offers steps you can take to minimize misunderstandings and create an environment of truthfulness and love.
  • A warden’s guide: Surviving the process ✓
    Think of this time as the longest Advent season you have ever experienced.
  • Richard Hooker on Conflict
    The name Richard Hooker rings no bell for most vestry members. More than a few clergy haven’t heard of him, either.
  • Wisdom Gathered, Lessons Learned
    There ARE crises that come along that you have to meet.
  • Avoiding the Quick Fix
    The greatest gift vestry members can give their churches is creative, positive challenge and support of their rector(s).
  • Vestries: Catalysts for Healing
    “What do you think is going to happen?” is a question I hear often in discussions of the aftermath of the sexuality decisions of the 2003 General Convention.
  • Fit to Go the Distance
    Don’t read this piece if you are looking for some McGod off the shelf, for religious leadership in uncertain times is not about a quick fix.
  • When Conflict and Hope Abound
    Conflict and controversy are intrinsic to the church, even if many of us would prefer to live and worship in communities that never disagreed about anything.
  • Bringing Wounds and Blessings
    Conflict can be difficult, especially in the church.
  • Skeletons in the Sacristy
    Skeletons in the sacristy? We have one — figuratively, at least — in our church.
  • Elephants in the Sanctuary
    Conflict. It’s inevitable. It occurs every day, in every facet of our lives.
  • Let's Paint the Doors Red
    Iglesia San Pedro-St. Peter’s Church is now an increasingly viable and vital congregation. The transformation has been astounding.
  • Triangulation: vestries be mindful
    In human interactive terms, a triangle occurs when each of two opposing parties seeks to join with a third party against the other, with the third party finding it necessary to cooperate now with one and now with another of these opposing parties.