Yesterday was super special. We said goodbye to our @stalphegeseasalter family & celebrated the end of my placement. We are moving to Wye soon to start my curacy. Let's goooo!
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The marketing campaign for The Fall Guy has been so joyous! Loving the love the stunt profession is getting. Hope it extends beyond this moment. https://t.co/zP4sUrPPaS
I am struggling to comprehend this.
โThe ยฃ100m Work and Health Programme, operating in England and Wales, will end in the autumn, providers have been told, at the same time that Rishi Sunak wants to cut benefits for 420,000 sick and disabled people in an attempt to force them into work โ a move that charities say would instead leave people destitute.โ
Hot on the heels of announcing that the government is fighting against โSick note cultureโ ( see below ) by cutting disability benefits because it wants to get people back to work; you might think they are going to invest more into back-to-work schemes. But no, they are cutting the scheme.
I find it difficult that the words โsocial justiceโ are emblazoned behind the Prime Minister , this approach to vulnerable people in our society doesnโt feel like justice at all.
Where trust is low and anxiety is high within a church or Christian org, I donโt care how loudly you proclaim the name of Jesus or how well you cast vision, you will find it hard to avoid the constant drumbeat of drama, division, discontent and dysfunction.
The reality is โ highly anxious systems donโt thrive. Within them, creativity is stifled and connection is eroded. No amount of vision-casting or mission-articulating, no repetition of praise songs, no amount of incentivizing and motivating, will tame the beast of anxiety. It sounds like sacrilege, but itโs really spiritual bypassing to think you can simply pray the anxiety away.
Only the hard work of fostering trust and authentic connection, honest self-assessment and deep confession, real safety and equal accountability, and a shared vision that emerges from the collective creativity that trust breeds can begin to shift a system from anxiety to trust.
Sometimes our best spiritual work is the hard and highly relational work we do together.
Iโve worked with hundreds of folks over 25 years from all different stripes, backgrounds and faith traditions, and you know who has the hardest time with @wademullenโs great graphic below?
Christian leaders.
โDo you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.โ
โ St. Augustine