Soulful Links
Change and conflict in congregations
Ideas and strategies for handling and change and conflict in the local church are offered in this presentation.
It gathers together ideas from a variety of sources that I've found helpful. Full references are given at the end of the presentation.
Leadership in the face of turmoil
Saint Augustine:
"I desire to know God and the soul. Nothing besides? Nothing at all."
A brief account of Augustine and his times in From Saint Augustine to William Temple: Eight Studies in Christian Leader by Vivian HH Green here.
Christian Leadership is About ...
Article here.
Monasteries of the Heart
Joan Chittister's initiative can be accessed here. The movement describes itself:
Monasteries of the Heart is a movement of seekers interested in becoming part of a community of seekers, either online or with others of their own choosing, who form to support one another in shaping their spiritual lives around Benedictine
values and priorities.
Groups and individuals will be devoted to Benedictine values but not necessarily bound by geographic stability. It is a monastery “without walls.” Communities may gather for prayer, discussion, and reflection — in families, parishes, neighborhoods, intentional communities, prisons, and on the internet. Monasteries of the Heart will also honor the enduring hermit tradition in a new way in a society in which great numbers of people, both young and elderly, live alone with little or no particularized support for their spiritual life.
Monasteries of the Heart is especially mindful of celebrating beauty, honoring the sacred and poetic word, and promoting nonviolence as a way of life and method of social change.
Monasteries of the Heart is a response to requests to develop a new form of Benedictine spirituality for a new face of society.
A conversation with Eugene Peterson.
This dates from 1995 but still offers sense of the fresh and exciting in what Peterson says of may important topics like holiness, narrative, the life of prayer and the importance of a proper Trinitarian theology. Find the script here.
James Wood on the New Atheism (an edited version of a recent Weidenfeld Lecture at St Anne's College,
Oxford.) Available on the Guardian pages here.
A brief account of Augustine and his times in From Saint Augustine to William Temple: Eight Studies in Christian Leader by Vivian HH Green here.
Christian Leadership is About ...
Article here.
Monasteries of the Heart
Joan Chittister's initiative can be accessed here. The movement describes itself:
Monasteries of the Heart is a movement of seekers interested in becoming part of a community of seekers, either online or with others of their own choosing, who form to support one another in shaping their spiritual lives around Benedictine
values and priorities.
Groups and individuals will be devoted to Benedictine values but not necessarily bound by geographic stability. It is a monastery “without walls.” Communities may gather for prayer, discussion, and reflection — in families, parishes, neighborhoods, intentional communities, prisons, and on the internet. Monasteries of the Heart will also honor the enduring hermit tradition in a new way in a society in which great numbers of people, both young and elderly, live alone with little or no particularized support for their spiritual life.
Monasteries of the Heart is especially mindful of celebrating beauty, honoring the sacred and poetic word, and promoting nonviolence as a way of life and method of social change.
Monasteries of the Heart is a response to requests to develop a new form of Benedictine spirituality for a new face of society.
A conversation with Eugene Peterson.
This dates from 1995 but still offers sense of the fresh and exciting in what Peterson says of may important topics like holiness, narrative, the life of prayer and the importance of a proper Trinitarian theology. Find the script here.
James Wood on the New Atheism (an edited version of a recent Weidenfeld Lecture at St Anne's College,
Oxford.) Available on the Guardian pages here.