Becoming A Congregation Of Learners

Author : Isa Aron
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781580237376

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Becoming a Congregation of Learners by Isa Aron Pdf

How can my congregation transform itself? How can we re-dedicate ourselves to learning? Improving spiritual connection in our communities takes work! Combining expert advice and experience garnered from congregations throughout North America, Becoming a Congregation of Learners shows us how transformative change is possible. A complete resource full of ideas, information and support, this is a guide for those of us involved in, or interested in, energizing our spiritual communities. Isa Aron, director of Hebrew Union College's Experiment in Congregational Education (ECE), offers concrete, practical information on how to bring about change and revitalization, and helps us make learning a vibrant, integral part of congregational life.

Author : Isa Aron
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781580237031

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The Self-Renewing Congregation by Isa Aron Pdf

How can my congregation become more vital? How can we both honor the past and embrace the future? “[The Self-Renewing Congregation] calls for ‘renewal’...from within, not without—a renewal that begins with institutional self-reflection, proceeds through a process of self-engagement, and ends with self-generated innovations that can deepen the synagogue congregation as a sacred community. The core of this book offers any congregation seeking this path a compelling and realistic roadmap, a vision, and a process that is rooted in applied research and practical experience.” —from the Foreword by Dr. Ron Wolfson, codeveloper, Synagogue 2000; author of Shabbat: The Family Guide to Preparing for and Celebrating the Sabbath Revitalizing and re-imagining the organization of our synagogues takes work! Combining expert advice and experience garnered from congregations throughout North America, The Self-Renewing Congregation shows us how transformative change is possible. A complete resource full of ideas, information, and support, this is a guide for those of us involved in, or interested in, energizing our spiritual communities. Isa Aron, founding director of Hebrew Union College’s Experiment in Congregational Education (ECE), offers concrete, practical information on how to bring about change through collaborative leadership, and helps us grow dynamic, successful congregations.

Author : Tim Shapiro
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781566997454

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How Your Congregation Learns by Tim Shapiro Pdf

Change isn’t always easy or intuitive. How Your Congregation Learns introduces churches and leaders—both lay and ordained—to the process of the learning journey. By understanding learning dynamics and working to become a learning community, the congregation will be able to move more purposefully to achieve its goals. Congregations face many kinds of challenges. Some are mundane: the roof leaks; the parking lot needs repaving; the microphones don’t work well. Some tests are transcendent: How should lives be honored? What is God calling the congregation to do and be? How can generosity be taught? Throughout life people face challenges for which they are not prepared—the death of a parent, a new job offer, making a decision about where to live. So it goes that congregational leaders face challenges that are just beyond the grasp of their abilities. This book addresses the just-beyond-the-grasp challenges and shows how real congregations can learn from them.

Author : Thomas R. Hawkins
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664256996

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The Learning Congregation by Thomas R. Hawkins Pdf

Congregations today face an adaptive challenge of immense proportions. Many respond with classic signs of work avoidance: holding to past assumptions and blaming authority. Thomas Hawkins's new vision of church leadership can provide a way to break through these defensive routines. The Learning Congregation is a must read for all pastors and church leaders.

Author : Joseph B. Meszler
Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781580233095

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Witnesses to the One by Joseph B. Meszler Pdf

A deeply personal exploration of Judaism's most sacred statement. Delve into the spiritual history of the Sh'ma and claim your own personal meaning in these enduring words. Traces the Sh'ma through the ages and in the lives of Jewish historical figures.

Author : UUA Commission on Institutional Change
Publisher : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781558968615

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Widening the Circle of Concern by UUA Commission on Institutional Change Pdf

Appointed by the Board of Trustees of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations in 2017, the UUA Commission on Institutional Change served through June 2020. Widening the Circle of Concern: Report of the UUA Commission on Institutional Change represents the culmination of the Commission’s work analyzing structural and systemic racism and white supremacy culture within Unitarian Universalism and makes recommendations to advance long-term cultural and institutional change that redeems the essential promise and ideals of Unitarian Universalism. The members and staff of the UUA Commission on Institutional Change were Chair Rev. Leslie Takahashi, Mary Byron, Cir L’Bert Jr., Rev. Dr. Natalie Fenimore, Dr. Elías Ortega, Caitlin Breedlove, DeReau K. Farrar, and Project Manager Rev. Marcus Fogliano.

Author : George W Bullard
Publisher : Chalice Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827230125

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Pursuing the Full Kingdom Potential of Your Congregation by George W Bullard Pdf

"Full Kingdom potential," says George Bullard, "is a journey, not a destination. To reach your full Kingdom potential, its pursuit must be your enduring passion and desire." Drawing on his more than four decades of experience in congregational leadership, Bullard offers not just another process for congregational redevelopment. He learns from the past to take congregations on a spiritual journey that is open-ended, custom-made, and locally owned. His focus is on capacity building in each congregation, calling for a narrative approach to futuring in the life of congregations that responds to new things God is seeking to do in and through members of the congregation. From the TCP Leadership Series.

Author : David W. Boshart
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498272780

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Becoming Missional by David W. Boshart Pdf

Christian leaders at every level of the church are working in the crucible of multiple realities where paradoxical trends occupy the same space and time. Today church leaders find themselves bearing witness to the gospel in contexts of discontinuous change. Nowhere is the complexity of mission strategy more apparent than in the relationships among denominational leaders and church planters. Enlightenment era models of mission relied heavily on models applied to cross-cultural contexts with little consideration of the congruence of the model with the cultural context. While mission practitioners have done their share of experimentation in the field, denominational centers typically play the role of referee in determining acceptable and unacceptable mission strategies. While it may seem that everything is up for grabs in the ecology of the church, the complexity and change Christians leaders face is not only a problem. Change and complexity also offer frame-breaking opportunities. The narratives in this book, presented as four case studies of church planting, will explore issues with which local, regional, and denominational church leaders struggle as they attempt to plant churches at a time when modern models of mission are quickly losing their relevance and coherence. This study will identify new pathways forward so that church leaders at every level can incarnate a winsome witness in social contexts that are increasingly characterized by complexity, paradox, and discontinuous change.

Author : Stuart M. Matlins
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781580236935

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The Jewish Lights Spirituality Handbook by Stuart M. Matlins Pdf

What is “Jewish Spirituality”? How do I make it part of my life? Today’s foremost spiritual leaders share their ideas and experience. Whether you are just curious, intently searching for greater personal meaning, or actively seeking ideas, information, practices and inspiration to enrich your spiritual life, The Jewish Lights Spirituality Handbook is the ideal companion for your journey as it explores: Awakening the Possibilities: What Is Jewish Spirituality? The Worlds of Your Life: Where Is Spirituality Found? The Times and Seasons of Your Life: When Does Spirituality Enter? Swords and Plowshares: How to Forge the Tools that Will Make It Happen So What Do You Do With It? Why Spirituality Should Be Part of Your Life Fifty of our foremost spiritual leaders invite you to explore every aspect of Jewish spirituality—God, community, prayer, liturgy, healing, meditation, mysticism, study, Jewish traditions, rituals, blessings, life passages, special days, the everyday, repairing the world, and more—offering, in one place, everything you need to discover allthe directions that Jewish spirituality can go and can take you. ,b>The royalties from The Jewish Lights Spirituality Handbook are donated by the contributors and publisher to America’s Jewish seminaries.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X030293844

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Sh'ma by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eduardo M. Duarte
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789460919480

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Being and Learning by Eduardo M. Duarte Pdf

“Education is not an art of putting sight into the eye that can already see, but one of turning the eye towards the proper gaze of Being. That’s what must be managed!” Plato insists. This claim is the take-off point for Eduardo Duarte’s meditations on the metaphysics and ontology of teaching and learning. In Being and Learning he offers an account of learning as an attunement with Being’s dynamic presencing and unconcealment, which Duarte explores as the capacity to respond and attend to the matter that stands before us, or, in Arendtian terms, to love the world, and to be with others in this world. This book of ‘poetic thinking’ is a chronicle of Duarte’s ongoing exploration of the question of Being, a philosophical journey that has been guided primarily through a conversation with Heidegger, and which also includes the voices of Plato, Aristotle, Heraclitus, Nietzsche, as well Lao Tzu and the Buddha, among others. In Being and Learning, Duarte undertakes a ‘phenomenology of the original’: a writing that consciously and conspicuously interrupts the discursive field of work in philosophy of education. As the late Reiner Schurmann described this method: “it recalls the ancient beginnings and it anticipates a new beginning, the possible rise of a new economy among things, words and actions.” Being and Learning is a work of parrhesia: a composition of free thought that disrupts the conventional practice of philosophy of education, and thereby open up gaps and spaces of possibility in the arrangement of words, concepts, and ideas in the field. With this work Eduardo Duarte is initiating new pathways of thinking about education.

Author : Hazel Bryan,Howard Worsley
Publisher : Canterbury Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781848257528

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Being Christian in Education by Hazel Bryan,Howard Worsley Pdf

Experienced practitioners, theologians and academics reflect on the Christian voice as it engages in education today. At a time of national uncertainty for RE, questions about faith-based schools and the place of religious belief in the public arena, this volume is a resource for school and university teachers, head teachers, chaplains, governors, diocesan officers, concerned parents educationalists. It offers: • a frank discussion about the tensions in bringing faith into the open in current educational contexts.• theological reflection of Christian engagement in the public place • a creative exploration of the future for Christian engagement in education. It also considers the tensions inherent in practising Christian faith within a secular context and in multi-faith contexts. It aims to generate new confidence that will encourage the practice and contribution of faith-based thinking in schools.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Oxford (England)
ISBN : PRNC:32101035033644

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Oxford Historical Society by Anonim Pdf

Author : Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Oxford (England)
ISBN : UIUC:30112085280714

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Publications by Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) Pdf

Author : Rev. Anita L. Bradshaw, PhD
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781594735950

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Change and Conflict in Your Congregation (Even If You Hate Both) by Rev. Anita L. Bradshaw, PhD Pdf

A warmhearted guidebook to help your church navigate change and channel conflict into a stronger sense of mission and community. Lay leaders, pastors and church staff will be empowered by creative, practical strategies to establish appropriate congregational behavior, offer nonanxious leadership and foster community discussion and discernment.