Faith, Wisdom & Spirituality

I recently connected with Dr Manoj Krishna, founder of the Human Wisdom Project – and am delighted that he will be my first guest in a series of Tuesday afternoon conversations on Zoom around ‘Faith, Wisdom and Spirituality in the 21st Century’ – beginning Tuesday 1st March. Olive Fleming Drane, theologian, author, clown and member of the IT’s For Ministry FaceBook Group is my guest – on 8th March. Details…

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Better Meetings – on-line and on-site

A couple of paragraphs from an email sent earlier today to a colleague… that are probably worthy of ’putting out there’! “I often wish that there could be more time in meetings to take time for ideation – generating the good and bad ideas, evaluating options and perhaps making new and creative discoveries along the way – rather than receiving a paper with a proposal from ‘an expert’. There are…

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Resources

I’m pulling together a list of resources for congregational leaders in my Presbytery and will share it here too… What other resources would you add to the list..? Resources Church of Scotland Church of Scotland newsletters Link: churchofscotland.org.uk/news-and-events/newsletters1 You can subscribe to the various Church of Scotland E-newsletters: News and Events on the web Link: churchofscotland.org.uk/news-and-events2 Children’s and Youth Ministry Now your talking Facebook group. Worship Resources Stirling Presbytery List…

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Blessed are the Treelike

‘Blessed are the ones… like trees that grow beside a stream, that bear fruit at the right time, and whose leaves do not dry up. They succeed in everything they do.’ From Psalm 1 Like trees we have roots, trunks, branches, leaves, flowers and fruit Roots Drawing on strength and inspiration from God, family, friends, colleagues, neighbours, we are nourished, sustained and blessed. Intentional time to care for ourselves and…

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Toast on Beans

I recently came across weand.me which has some wonderful ideas about how to make online meetings better with good questions, and creating involvement and engagement. There are some freely downloadable resources featuring ice-breaker type questions – along with the more deep and meaningful… I had posted an example on the ITsForMinistry FaceBook page: It generated a bit of discussion – with ideas about how to do ’beans on toast’ differently…

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I have a dream…

Martin Luther King Jr Day is marked on the Third Monday January – close to his birthdate 15 Jan 1929 He famously said, “I have a dream…” Not, “I have a plan… an idea… a project… With the emotion of a dream he led others to action, changed beliefs, ideas, and plans… but it all began with a dream… What are your dreams… your hopes… for the World, the Church,…

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Our deepest fear…

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so…

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