VOLUNTARY SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP

My Review of  The Study of Christianity Spirituality:  Contours and Dynamics of a Discipline by  Sandra M Schneiders Christian Spirituality Bulletin: Journal of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality, Volume 6, #1, Spring 1998, p. 1,3-12. This article is a common starting point for discussing spirituality?  What is it? How do we study it?  What is its relationship to various disciplines?  Why is it important?     The Subject Matter of the Discipline of Spirituality Schneiders asserts that most scholars would agree that:  “what we study, is lived Christian faith.”  However, she offers a more specific definition. “Spirituality … is the experience of the conscious involvement in the project of life-integration through self-transcendence toward the ultimate value one perceives.”  She would apply this definition to all forms of spirituality including those that are not Christian or even theistic.  Christianity suppl...

  Servant Leadership:  A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness In bookstores, Greenleaf's masterpiece can be found in the business management and/or the inspirational books collections. Servant Leadership promotes both organizational and personal development. Greenleaf maintains that service to others is the heart of personal and organizational leadership. As a social psychologist, I particularly value his understanding of the interdependence of organizations and persons. As he put it: "The organization exists for the person as much as the person exists for the organization". Synodality promotes both an organizational culture and a personal spirituality of walking together. Greenleaf's insights about servant leadership are very helpful in developing both organizational cultures of walking together and personal spiritualities of walking together.  Biography of Greenleaf on his Servant Leadership site During college Greenleaf was inspired by a sociol...

From the preparatory document Preparatory Document for the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, 07.09.2021 28. Furthermore, in re-reading experiences, it is necessary to keep in mind that “journeying together” can be understood from two different perspectives, which are strongly interconnected.  The first perspective looks at the internal life of the particular Churches , at the relationships between their constituent parts (first and foremost between the Faithful and their Pastors, also through the participatory bodies envisaged by the canonical discipline, including the diocesan synod) and the communities into which they are divided (especially parishes).  It then considers the relationships between the Bishops and with the Bishop of Rome , also through the intermediate bodies of synodality (Synods of Bishops of the Patriarchal and Major Archdiocesan Churches, Councils of Hierarchs and Assemblies of Hierarchs of the Churches sui iuris, and Episcopal Confer...