Leadership & Boundaries
Boundaries Leadership is often a focus for these musings. That focus has become sharper since I began as Principal of St. Andrew’s College in 2019. I have the honour to be involved
Leadership & Justice #2
Leadership is facilitative; Leadership is modelling; Leadership is prophetic; Leadership is relational; Leadership endeavours to be collaborative; Leadership endeavours to be conciliar; Leadership occurs in community; Leadership occurs in a faith-based context; Leadership occurs
Lent|Giving Up Popularity
I do not think I am alone in this, and a quick Google search seems to lend some credence to my assumption that the word “popularity” conjures images of high school. For all the learning and challenges that we might have experienced during that formative time or are experiencing now, apparently, our memory of that time is never far away! Connecting this week’s musing, therefore, has been … interesting.
Community Connexions
What does community mean to you? How has it shaped you? How have you shaped it? Has it been soul-devouring? Has it been a life-giving experience? Community
Appreciative Principles|Free Choice
This ten-part A Deacon’s Musing series will explore the intersection between the change philosophy known as Appreciative Inquiry and a Christian theological orientation grounded in diversity. I am most grateful to be co-shaping this conversation with my mentor and friend Maureen McKenna.
Intentional Community|Take Three
As I was reviewing the blogs that have been written since 2008, I became aware that one of the non-fiction pieces of writing I had penned was not, unfortunately, part of the A Deacon’s Musing collection. I first mused about Intentional Community in 2008, when I was blogging with the Emerging Spirit Programme of The United Church of Canada (UCC).
Lent|Vignette (McCrae’s Table)
A Lenten Collection Lent: We walk into the gathering danger & doubt surrounding Jesus as he made choices that led to the Cross. This is a time of preparation & reflection. Where
Lent|Vignette (The Microphone)
Insight and energy give rise to new life as we speak out and act out our own version of truth, while checking and correcting it against the truths of others. But many of us
Lent|Vignette (Gunn’s Stone)
Time moves slowly. Beneath me a life – once lived – slowly gives itself back so something else will be. Its thoughts and choices, celebrations and regrets, a memory kept by some, lost by others. Here I stand, witness and marker, as time slowly moves from then to now to then again.
Lent|Vignette (A Garden)
Without a community, it is nearly impossible to achieve voice: it takes a village to raise a Rosa Parks. Without a community, it is nearly impossible to exercise the “power of one” in a