Co-Creation. I hear God’s voice above the clamor of the dominant culture. God asks me to question its assumptions and beliefs. As a servant leader I align my life with God’s dream and engage with others to be co-creative instruments of justice and peace. The clamor of our dominant culture is constantly pushing us to […]
Church of the Saviour
Church of the Saviour: A Faith Community of Character
In November we visited Washington, DC, the culmination of our Servant Leadership course in the fall. Our visit was focused around Church of the Savior, started by Gordon and Mary Cosby in the 1940’s in the Columbia Heights and Adam’s Morgan neighborhoods. What I was struck by was the church’s (and the Cosby’s) incredible legacy […]
From Abstract to Concrete: Servant Leadership in Action
This month’s trip to DC to visit the Church of the Savior was a fantastic example of the JSC value of co-creation. We were presented over and over again with examples of people and communities living counter-culturally. Ray McGovern, for example, actively and publicly questions dominant systems and structures that manipulate and oppress. Becca Stelle, […]