Mindful Leader
Episodes
Friday Jun 02, 2023
Episode 4: Al Strauss, Chair of Responsible Stewardship
Friday Jun 02, 2023
Friday Jun 02, 2023
Rev. Al Strauss, Chair of Responsible Stewardship of the Mountain Sky Conference is our guest.
Al recently accepted the Responsible Stewardship Chair and plans to use his experiences with leading the Task Force on Disaffiliation to help him cast his leadership vision for this Committee.
Al also serves on the Conference Trustees.
Al has served in a number of clergy positions in (legacy) Rocky Mountain and Mountain Sky Conferences since 2002.
This was recorded on June 1, 2023.
Our next guests will be the three conference co-lay leaders: Gayla Jo Slauson, Nancy Flint and Barry Welliver. That recording will take place on June 9, 2023. If you have any questions send them to me at the email I will show below.
If you have any comments or observations send them to me -- dennis at mantuan dot org (typed this way to obfuscate the harvest bots who would gather my email address.)
Thursday May 18, 2023
Episode 2 -- An Interview with Bruce Berger
Thursday May 18, 2023
Thursday May 18, 2023
Bruce Berger is the current President of the Council on Finance and Administration for the Mountain Sky Conference.
He has served both legacy Rocky Mountain and the new Mountain Sky Conferences. Bruce worships at Park Hill UMC in Denver.
If you have any thoughts you wish to share, do not hesitate to send me a note at dennis at mantuan dot org and I will try to answer it as quickly as practicable.
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Podcast host Dennis Shaw is a musician, marathoner (Boston!), retired military officer, math modeler, and United Methodist Pastor. A keen observer of the human condition, he has degrees in music, quantitative methods (don’t ask!), theology and leadership. He will discuss with other leaders how to become engaged and present in our current leadership opportunities. Critical to leadership is strong self-awareness. Becoming authentic, empathetic, and aware will form the framework of all discussions.
Saturday Feb 02, 2019
November 11, 2018 -- Serving Means Letting Go
Saturday Feb 02, 2019
Saturday Feb 02, 2019
Scripture Readings: Luke 15: 11-12 (yes, short).
Big idea: God calls on people to serve. I am mindful that the son had a different agenda than serving but what I want to focus on is letting go. The father let go. In today’s world, we are served by many and parents, grandparents, friends, have to let go.
“In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.” Deepak Chopra
Part of our task is know when to let go, and when to hang on.