Quakerism. Open + Relational Theology. Rural Leadership. Author of Recovering Abundance: Twelve Practices for Small Town Leaders.
Jefferson City, TN
Joined April 2013
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.@AndyHenry10 explains how the practice of gratitude can change the way we view our community and our world. For leaders, gratitude isn’t merely an essential personal spiritual practice. It is a way to shift attention toward what is present and possible. ow.ly/cvqr50Q7HfH
ALT Gratitude as Leadership
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"On the surface, charismatic Christians and Quakers couldn’t be more different," Andy Stanton-Henry writes. "But when we dig a little deeper, we are more connected than one might think." friendsjournal.org/all-the-w…
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Andy Stanton-Henry’s Recovering Abundance (@FortressPress) blesses the seeming poverty of small-town America and witnesses its actual and potential wealth unfolding. May we come to see what he sees, and foster what he fosters.
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If we don’t have a hidden life with God, our public life for God cannot bear fruit.
-Henri Nouwen
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I'm wondering if silence itself is perhaps the mystery at the heart of music... And it is only in silence that the gifts of melody and metaphor are offered.
- Gordan Sumner (Sting)
A piece I wrote for Friends Journal about the "fallacies of Quaker leadership"
A statement like “we don’t have leaders” doesn’t reflect the reality of contemporary Quakerism—or the reality of Quaker history. If it did, Friends wouldn’t keep talking about individual figures like George Fox, Margaret Fell, Mary Dyer, or Bayard Rustin.
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We cannot love issues, but we can love people, and the love of people reveals to us the way to deal with issues.
-Henri Nouwen
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What are the empty seats in your meetinghouse saying to you?
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I'm inclined to ignore the SBC drama, except that they still have powerful influence in so many families, churches, and other institutions. My family has been impacted by their power, as have many others.
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It disregards the callings of beautiful, faithful people.
It marginalizes ministers and their essential ministries. It silences much-needed prophetic voices.
It blocks the suffering from receiving compassionate care.
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Quaker educator Paul Lacy went so far as to say many Friends communities develop an “anti-leader” who, ironically, exercises leadership in order to resist leadership. So we are left with either no clear leadership or toxic leadership. esr.earlham.edu/news-events/…
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“Religion is a cow that sometimes kicks but also gives milk.” Ramakrishna
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“To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.”
—bell hooks
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Christ promised to be present when two or more get together in his name. If this is true, what greater task of leadership is there but to be a “gatherer” – one who invites, hosts, and creates a space in which the Present Christ can be experienced?
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