Episode 8: Sarah Calvert, Virginia Conference of the UMC

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 ... 

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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.