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Tag Archives: Collaboration
The Dream of the Perfect Plan
It was February 1990, when the South African president Frederick Willem de Klerk made a shocking announcement: he would be releasing Nelson Mandela after 27 years in prison, and he would legalize Mandela’s political party and all other opposition parties for … Continue reading
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Tagged adrienne maree brown, Change, Co-Creation, Collaboration, Perfection, Planning, Plans, Sermon, Sermons, Shaping Change, South Africa, Strategic Plans, Threshold, Transformation, Trust, Wholeness
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The Deal on Those Days, a sermon for the UUA General Assembly June 2022
It was March 2020, you know the week. I’m sitting in my home office. Just a few feet away, my two teenagers are in the living room “homeschooling.” A few feet from them, my partner is at the kitchen table. It is … Continue reading
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Tagged Change, Church, Collaboration, Covenant, COVID, Diana Butler Bass, Ecclesiology, Mission, Partners, Partnership, Promise, Sermon, Sermons, Unitarian Universalism, Vision
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Tough Love Adapts
On the One Year Anniversary of the Pandemic Reflection: Tough Love Adapts A few years back, I was with a group of leaders, talking about change, and what makes it easier or harder to handle. Everyone agreed that key is … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, Collaboration, Collective, Community, Congregational Life, Connection, COVID, Foothills, Individual, Margaret Wheatley, pandemic, Relationship, Sermon, Sermons
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All This, and More, Final Candidating Sermon
Final sermon for candidating for senior minister, foothills unitarian church, November 15, 2015 Listen to this sermon here. Reading: Now I Become Myself by May Sarton Sermon: All This, and More “What would you say to those who aren’t sure … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy of Church, Sermons
Tagged Collaboration, Covenant, Covenantal, Ministry, Role of the Church, Sermon, Sermons, Theology, Vision
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In Shared Ministry
Before I went to seminary – despite being very active in my local UU congregation – I remained skeptical about the value of “church” in today’s world. I wondered if “church” was a concept we could do without. Then, in … Continue reading
Posted in Blog Reflections
Tagged Beloved Community, Change, Collaboration, Interim, Partnership, Role of the Church, Shared Ministry, Transitions
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Like a Good Neighbor, Sermon June 30 2013
First Reading: “Of the Communion of Churches One With Another,” From the Cambridge Platform, 1648, Chapter 15 Although Churches be distinct, and therefore may not be confounded one with another: and equal, and therefore have not dominion one over another: yet … Continue reading
Doing Church Through Learning Communities
I often ask those who are newer to the church – what brought you here? Perhaps not surprisingly – I don’t get too many who say “I was really hoping to join a Committee!” And yet, without the loving hands … Continue reading
Core Values in Creating Worship
Multiple Voices: In worship, we perform our mission- the congregation we are becoming; and as we perform it, we make it true. As a result, it matters who stands in front of the congregation and how they interact. It matters … Continue reading
Posted in Blog Reflections, Philosophy of Church
Tagged Collaboration, Liturgy, Mission, Worship
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Another Possibility 