Skip to content
  • Home
  • Resources
  • Rural Ministries
  • Governance as Spiritual Practice
  • Blog
    • Reflections
    • Prayers
  • Events
  • About
  • Contact

Our Speechless Hearts

Catherine Smith2020-08-14T08:35:01-03:00Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: Faith formation, listening, Ritual, Silence, spiritual practice, threshold, Touchstones|

Intentional silence is not a retreat into some private piety. Nor is it passive. It is a rugged and sometimes ragged discipline of turning over and [...]

Read More
 7

A Circle of Folded Stories

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:08-04:00Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: Church Governance, evaluation, knowing, spiritual practice, Stories, story|

In this year of Sabbath and in this time of Advent, I am so grateful for space in which to give attention to stories, their folding [...]

Read More
 0

Beginning

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:32-04:00Categories: Words|Tags: compassion, creativity, governance, Leadership, spiritual practice, vulnerability, Wholeness|

 Not long ago I shared with a gathering of others a way of governance birthed out of a commitment to vulnerable practice.  I have been consciously [...]

Read More
 0
Copyright 2017 Catherine Smith | All Rights Reserved