Last morning at RLLS was full of a sense of deep connection. Though most were clearly eager to return home to their loved ones, there was also a sadness. In worship, we reflected upon how we had successfully built a beloved community together, and took time to think about the…
RLLS: Prophetic Voice
Our Prophetic Voice is not a voice that speaks the future, it is our voice which speaks truth; or at least our voice which speaks our truth, and in particular, the voice that speaks truth to power. This is a short post, because well, its been a long week, and…
RLLS: Building Beloved Community
Beloved Community. “Take care of the people, the all-mighty God can take care of himself.” – Kurt Vonnegut Day 4, or really, Day 3 of classes here are RLLS. There was again, a lot of ground today; what stuck with me is that to create our community, our beloved community…
RLLS: Our Mission and Vision
“Claiming our Mission” Day 2, Day 3 of Classes. “A church that is not growing has a mission problem.” – Robert Latham Mission is simply a bit misty and hard to nail down unless you are working on one. It seems, from the coursework, and my thought, that our mission…
RLLS: Our Covenantal Faith
Covered an amazing amount of ground today; covenantal faith, mission, vision, Universalist history, Unitarian history and small group discussion. Literally some 14 hours of dialog, music and worship. What stood out the most? Even though today was about mission, the importance of our covenants to our faith was what stuck…
RLLS: Gathering
First night at RLLS (Russell Lockwood Leadership School) tonight; we met, did introductions, an ice-breaker name game where everyone added an adjective to their name (there are almost 40 participants so that took a while and was much, much harder than it sounds), broke down into Covenant Groups then back…