Treats conflict as an opportunity to learn and grow, both individually, and institutionally

In Trusting Change, minister and award-winning author Karen Hering invites readers to live into and through our transformative times together.A 2023 Silver Nautilus Award winner in the Rising to the Moment (small press) category

Is your congregation stagnant, or in decline? Congregations, like any living systems, have a natural life cycle. Find framing and tools for renewal!

Conflicts actually present great opportunities for building community by renewing covenants, recommitting to values, and clarifying our shared purpose.

Looking for resources for congregational growth and vitality, conflict resolution, or pastoral care? Start here.

Well, we’re in the soup now. There’s nothing like a crisis to bring clarity about what is most essential. Over the last few weeks I’ve watched as my inbox overflowed with messages from our UU congregations and communities, our dedicated religious professionals, and our committed lay leaders.

A changing, troubled world calls for prepared leaders. With advance preparation, you can meet moments of crisis with more confidence and less anxiety.

And then Rev. Dr. Hall mentions the fifth grief stage of Acceptance and writes this vignette: Acceptance – Our church is changing. The religious landscape in our country is changing. I may not like all these changes. But it is the reality. We can only choose how we respond to this new reality.

From Karen Hering: "The old rules are breaking... We are living on the threshold, between what is no longer and what is not yet. It can be exhilarating. It is often unnerving or even frightening."

How do we bridge the gap between our aspirations and our faithful impact? Understanding faith development as an agent of culture change.

Skyla King-Christison asks, "Who, if not us, will show the world that it’s possible to function as an organization while loving each person’s full humanity?"

Join Rev Tyler Coles and Rev Dayna Edwards as they explore the critical importance of faith development and its role in driving forward paradigmatic shifts for congregations toward greater equity, health, and vibrancy.

Unitarian Universalism is often referred to as a living faith. For me that means that Unitarian Universalism is in constant motion and changes through the times we live in.

This Threshold Conversation explores the transformative power of faith development, not just for ourselves, but for our communities & wider culture.

As we navigate this spring, some of us may be navigating a difficult end to this congregational year with difficult decisions on the horizon. Some of us may be preparing to end things on an appreciative and hopeful note with bountiful picnics. Some of us may be preparing to take risks...

As human beings we are conflict avoidant – until we are not. Then we are willing to destroy one another. Conflict begins when there is more than one idea, opinion, or experience in the room. We are so conflict avoidant that we even avoid using the word conflict for this experience. We can’t see...

When all is going wrong and you're scared as hell What you gonna do? Who you gonna tell? A hundred bad days made a hundred good stories A hundred good stories make me interesting at parties, yeah No, I ain't scared of you No, I ain't scared of you no more -AJR, “100 Bad Days”, Neotheater Can you...

We had about a minute in, when, June? when we in congregations thought we were on the path to pandemic freedom. I don’t know about you but I definitely was imagining A Return To Normal Church.

In the middle of a pandemic when none of us have all of our cylinders firing consistently, when all of us are experiencing extra pressure, confusion, and fear, as well as illness, loss, and grief, we need to be clear.

When I was a child, I was fascinated by terrariums. There can be something alluring about creating miniature worlds. It’s a chance to observe a world under glass.