In this seven-part series, participants are introduced to Spiritual Leadership and its five practices: Covenanting, Tending Our Tradition, Doing Our Inner Work, Centering in Gifts, and Faithful Risking. The series centers on questions faithful people are asking: "How can we more actively imagine,...

People of faith who long for a transformed world are called to claim their Spiritual Leadership. Our souls need it. Our congregations need it. Our world needs it....

“Whenever we try to envision a world without war, without violence, without prisons, without capitalism,” writes Walidah Imarisha, “we are engaging in speculative fiction. All organizing is science fiction. Organizers and activists dedicate their lives to creating and envisioning another...

Faithful Risking, one of the five practices of Spiritual Leadership, stretches us beyond where we are comfortable in the name of Love and Justice.

Covenanting, one of the five practices of Spiritual Leadership, is at the heart of the practice of Unitarian Universalism.

Doing Our Inner Work is one of the five practices of Spiritual Leadership. It is about wakening our souls and tuning in to the wisdom.

Tending Our Tradition is one of the five practices of Spiritual Leadership. When we choose Unitarian Universalism as our religion, we claim and are claimed by the tradition. We claim it and it claims us back.

Centering in gifts is is one of the five practices of Spiritual Leadership, a vital practice for human well being and wholeness. This is true for individuals and the community as a whole. Our gifts are not for us — they are meant to build, maintain, and restore the community.

Centering in gifts is is one of the five practices of Spiritual Leadership, a vital practice for human well being and wholeness. This is true for individuals and the community as a whole. Our gifts are not for us — they are meant to build, maintain, and restore the community.

Spiritual Leadership is doing what is ours to do, giving our unique gifts to the world. It is living in our dignity and integrity, despite the things in the world that would rob us of power or dignity or worth. It is a willingness to depend on something larger than ourselves and to be in community.

Earlier this year, just as the reality of the pandemic was unfolding, the New England Region was planning to host a workshop on “Faithful Risking,” one of our Practices of Spiritual Leadership. Ultimately we ended up cancelling the workshop. While we could have adapted to an online format,...

Faithful congregations take faithful risks. In this post, we lift up examples of the faithful risks New England Region congregations have taken recently. The UU Meeting House of Pittsfield, ME When they lost their longtime minister and realized they could not afford to hire another professional...

While the New England Region staff team’s introduction of the concept and practices of Spiritual Leadership has been enthusiastically received, there’s been some pushback about the one we call “binding to tradition.” Most Unitarian Universalists don’t like the idea of being bound to...