Ministry in Steel Toe Shoes
Building the Beloved Community
Navigation
  • Home
  • About Me
  • About My Shoes
  • About Unitarian Universalism
You are here: Home › Entries tagged with "sabbatical"
Currently browsing tag

sabbatical

Post-Sabbatical Reflections

December 1, 2016 | Filed under: Self Care, Spiritual Practice

This is the letter I shared with my congregation when I returned from sabbatical in November 2016. Beloved community, The first two months of sabbatical, I found myself processing a lot of grief. I have been present to quite a bit of suffering and death in my first few years …

Pre-Sabbatical Sermon: All the Things

July 3, 2016 | Filed under: Self Care, Sermons

The following sermon was shared at the July 3, 2016 worship service at Chalice Unitarian Universalist Congregation. In October 2007, I was living in San Diego (where I was born and raised), and I had been attending First Church, the big UU church in Hillcrest, for three years. I came home …

Pre-Sabbatical Letter

July 1, 2016 | Filed under: Church Newsletter, Self Care

This is the letter I shared with my congregation in June 2016 before taking a four month sabbatical: Beloved community, Since my sabbatical was announced earlier this year, I have been asked dozens of times—by people within our congregation and outside it as well—“What are your plans?” It is only …

Archives

Recent Posts

  • How to Keep Your Minister: A Guide for the Thoughtful Layperson
  • Exiting the Aircraft
  • Sermon: What I Know About Grief
  • Sermon: Addicted to the Sensational
  • Sermon: Do Unto Others

Blogroll

  • PostSecret
  • Sermons in Stones
  • Sexuality and Religion: What's the Connection
  • Throw Yourself Like Seed
  • Universalist Prayers
  • Yet Another UU

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Categories

  • Announcements
  • Church 101
  • Church 201
  • Church Construction
    • Architecture
    • Arts
    • Best Practices
    • Buying A Building
    • Interiors
    • New Construction
    • Renovation
    • Steeples
  • Church Newsletter
  • In the Media
  • Ministry
    • Fun
    • Pastoral Care
    • Practical Arts
    • Prophetic Outreach
    • Self Care
    • Spiritual Practice
    • Teaching
    • Worship
  • Sermons

Tags

Anti-Racism Books Chalice UUC Community Congregational Health Construction Faith in Action Free and Responsible Search General Assembly Grief Immigration Reform Interdependent Web Leadership Living Our Principles Mental Health Mission MLK Movies Past Pledging Poem Prayer Religious Identity sabbatical Starr King Church Starr King School for the Ministry Tea Theology UU Church of Berkeley UU Congregation of Marin UU History Voluntary Simplicity

Anti-Racism Resources

  • Being a White Ally
  • Colorlines.com News for Action
  • Paul Kivel
  • Tim Wise (essayist)
  • Unmasking Racial Micro Aggressions
  • White Guilt (3 min. video)
  • White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

Unitarian Universalism on the Web

  • Church of the Larger Fellowship
  • Discover UU
  • DRUUMM (People of Color Org)
  • Find A UU Congregation
  • Standing on the Side of Love
  • UU Allies for Racial Equity
  • UU Association
  • UU Legislative Ministries
  • UU Quotes
  • UU Service Committee
  • UU Theological Groups
  • UU World (Magazine)
  • UUA Blogs
  • UUA Bookstore
  • UUpdates News Aggregator

Immigration Reform

  • CA Immigrant Policy Center
  • Detention Watch Network
  • Immigrant Legal Resource Center
  • Immigration Bulletin Daily
  • Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights
  • UUA Immigration Justice

© 2023 Ministry in Steel Toe Shoes

Powered by Esplanade Theme by One Designs and WordPress