Mindful Leader
Episodes
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Episode 8: Sarah Calvert, Virginia Conference of the UMC
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Monday Aug 21, 2023
The topic is urgency and anxiety.
Our guest is the Reverend Doctor Sarah Calvert, Northern Virginia District Superintendent for the Virginia Conference. Sarah and I were colleagues in the Wesley Theological Seminary Doctor of Ministry Program where both of us also got our Master of Divinity. She also holds degrees from Mary Washington in Virginia and George Mason (Scalia School of Law).
Sarah's LinkedIn is HERE and HERE is a bio used at Northern Virginia welcoming.
Some links from the Podcast follow:
Linsky and Heifetz: Leadership on the Line. Excellent book. We discussed it briefly. Very briefly. Will probably come back to it another day.
Paragraph 2553 of our UM Book of Discipline is HERE. This was passed in order in 2019 in order to provide an avenue for churches unhappy with the current wording in our polity the means to leave the UMC. Ironically, the intended user in 2019 is not using the provision, rather, it is by and large the forces that developed the policy.
Enneagram is HERE. Other examples exist. Fairly long. Do it when you have a few minutes.
Strengths Finder is HERE. There is a cost. Sorry.
Franciscan Blessing -- Sarah goes to this blessing at the end of our talk. I indicated I would share it with all ...
Please, if you find the show rewarding, get yourself subscribed on your podcast software. I use an app called Overcast but there are many. Look for Mindful Leader Dennis Shaw and you should get a hit. Let me know if you don't. My email is dennis at mantuan dot org ... (bot perplexer).
We are on a two week schedule on Mondays. This one was released on August 21st. My next guest is Annie Arnoldy, the Mountain Sky Conference Director of Connectional Ministry.
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.)
Monday Mar 04, 2019
Transfiguration Sunday -- Jesus Revealed in our Valleys
Monday Mar 04, 2019
Monday Mar 04, 2019
The Transfiguration Text from Luke. I felt a number of weeks ago that focusing on the valley experience was where the Holy Spirit was carrying me (us?). There is a good bit of pain at this church over the recent General Conference. I have tried the last several weeks to minimize direct discussion of General Conference, and focus more on implied elements. This day, I felt a direct discussion was in order. All I can tell anyone is that I agonized over what to say, and this is what God provided me.
This is from 9:00 AM. I may also do the 10:30 service, which was a little longer.