by Kendall Bergman | Mar 10, 2022 | Blog
My journey with purpose has been fraught with fits and starts and loads of apparently meaningless lulls in between. I was born and raised in Texas and my worldview was highly influenced by the predominantly white southern Baptist church that taught me about Jesus and...
by Steve Wolff | Mar 10, 2022 | Blog
My all-time favorite movie line comes from the Western Five Card Stud. Dean Martin is out demonstrating his six-gun prowess to Inga Stevens, shooting bottles off the corral rails, when up rides Bob Mitchum as “The Preacher.” Mitchum asks to give it a try, so Dean...
by Rose Madrid Swetman | Jan 19, 2022 | Blog
“A Rule of Life is descriptive in that it articulates our intentions and defines the ways in which we want to live. When we fall short of these intentions, the Rule of Life becomes prescriptive, showing us how we can return to the path that we have set for ourselves...
by Center for Transforming Engagement | Jan 19, 2022 | Blog
On June 25, Andrea Sielaff, MAC, Researcher for Resilient Leaders Project, hosted a conversation on the need for practices that can help cultivate practical resilience for ministry leaders. This was the final installment of the “Resilience in Crisis” webinar series,...
by Center for Transforming Engagement | Jan 19, 2022 | Blog
On May 7, Kate Rae Davis, Director of Resilient Leaders Project and Dr. J. Derek McNeil, President and Provost of The Seattle School, talked about the ways crisis can accelerate transformation and their hopes for positive change in our lives, city, and world. This was...
by Andrea Sielaff | Jan 19, 2022 | Blog
I live near Seattle, one of the first places in the US that COVID-19 hit hard. The first time I went to the grocery store after we all started to get a sense of the magnitude of this crisis, I took pictures of empty shelves where rice, flour, and chicken had been, as...
