Andy Stanton-Henry

Quakerism. Open + Relational Theology. Rural Leadership. Author of Recovering Abundance: Twelve Practices for Small Town Leaders.

[Lewis Center at WTS @LewisLeadership]

.@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. https://t.co/cSsuFF7PAl

[Friends Journal @friendsjournal]

"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." https://t.co/xdaOgacF0H

[Friends Journal @friendsjournal]

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.
https://t.co/sEmh0FEGKP

[Quaker Leadership Quotes @QuakerLeads]

If we don’t have a hidden life with God, our public life for God cannot bear fruit.

-Henri Nouwen

[Phil Baisley @buyukbaba2]

So, are these no longer tweets but Xclamations?

[Quaker Leadership Quotes @QuakerLeads]

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)

[Andy Stanton-Henry @AndyHenry10]

A piece I wrote for Friends Journal about the "fallacies of Quaker leadership"

[Friends Journal @friendsjournal]

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.
https://t.co/nISUbzFmJK

[Quaker Leadership Quotes @QuakerLeads]

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

[Quaker Leadership Quotes @QuakerLeads]

What are the empty seats in your meetinghouse saying to you?
https://t.co/sqQ4Y3JoUd

[Andy Stanton-Henry @AndyHenry10]

It inspires distrust of witnesses trusted by Jesus (see: the Resurrection)
And ultimately, it resists the movement of Spirit in the church and world by inverting the promises of Pentecost - "your sons and daughters shall NOT prophesy."

[Andy Stanton-Henry @AndyHenry10]

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.

[Andy Stanton-Henry @AndyHenry10]

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.

[Quaker Leadership Quotes @QuakerLeads]

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. https://t.co/y4vMV1Wz4B

[Jon M. Sweeney @jonmsweeney]

“Religion is a cow that sometimes kicks but also gives milk.” Ramakrishna

[Good Grief Network @GoodGriefNetwk]

“To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.”
—bell hooks

[Quaker Leadership Quotes @QuakerLeads]

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?
https://t.co/CJmmr5r797