Tending to Spiritual Leadership Blog
We believe the purpose of congregational life is to equip everyone in the congregation to live into their Spiritual Leadership. Here we share reflections to inspire and support Unitarian Universalists tending to Spiritual Leadership in themselves and their community.
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According to Movement Strategy Center (1), community transformation depends on: power analysis: understanding who has access to resources; who influences and participates in decision-making; and whose standards, stories and worldviews are valued; community organizing: working together across our...Filed in: Binding to Tradition, Centering Gifts, , Doing Our Inner Work, Faithful Risking -
by Wren Bellavance-Grace |Opening words from Artist and Vibe Curator Eso Tolson: I don’t know who needs to hear this but rest is not a reward. You don’t have to earn rest. You need rest. You deserve rest. You are worthy of rest simply because you are a living being. And don’t ever feel guilty for taking time to rest.Filed in: Doing Our Inner Work -
by Erica Baron, Woullard Lett |Woullard Lett: Where are we before we are born? What happens after we die? These questions have been answered differently by different cultures throughout the ages....Filed in: Binding to Tradition -
by Hilary Allen |Here I was thinking everything had already been said. That there were no other words to say (again) what we all already know: here we are, still in pandemic life. And yet, a shift has arrived and there are ideas being shared that can bring comfort, illumination, and insight. So, I wanted to share...Filed in: Binding to Tradition, Centering Gifts, , Doing Our Inner Work, Faithful Risking -
by Wren Bellavance-Grace |September is County Fair season in much of New England. In our UU congregations, September is also Ingathering time; water communion time; returning-to-church-time after far-flung summers laden with small jars of water from our travels and foot-long zucchinis from overflowing gardens....Filed in: Binding to Tradition, Centering Gifts, , Doing Our Inner Work, Faithful Risking -
by Meck Groot |A congregational board member called to ask what their church might do about their building. Like so many New England churches, theirs is old, labyrinthine, mostly inaccessible, and larger than they need now....Filed in: Centering Gifts, , Doing Our Inner Work, Faithful Risking -
The call to adopt an 8th Principle is rippling through Unitarian Universalism. This Principle invites UU congregations to covenant to affirm and promote journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle...Filed in: Binding to Tradition -
by Erica Baron |As we have engaged UUs around New England in reflecting on living in covenant, we on regional staff have noticed an assumption so foundational that it is often revealed in storytelling but rarely said directly. That is: We can be either in covenant or in conflict, but not both at the same time.... -
by Wren Bellavance-Grace |We all come to Unitarian Universalism in our own way. For some of us, it’s a birthright—I have met a few folks who could trace their congregational roots all the way back over seven or eight generations! Some of us were brought in by friends...Filed in: Binding to Tradition -
by Hilary Allen |I don’t doubt that many of us are maybe a little afraid to reflect so soon on something that is still quite close and tender. These fears may be part of the reason for Ken Burns’ five year standard! Yet, let us remember that company is one of the gifts of community, that we will have each other to..Filed in: Doing Our Inner Work