Dennis Shaw returns to the Mindful Leader podcast to introduce a new season focused on church leadership for clergy and laity, the Slow Work of Trust (a new book, see below), and careful conversations about difficult topics like antisemitism and Christian nationalism.

Episodes will feature solo reflections, guest dialogues, and occasional classes (including a Bonhoeffer series), with new episodes planned for the first and third Mondays of each month.

Dennis new book is Slow Work of Trust -- self published through Amazon. You can find more about it HERE.

Dennis email is HERE.

Dennis Shaw offers a short reflection on a guiding principle and is the start of a series on more personal observations on church leadership.

The session is a reflective leadership discussion, centered on a core guiding principle: love your congregation where they are. The discussion challenges the notion of “fixing” a congregation, emphasizes the plurality of community, trust-building, and leadership as presence and listening rather than control.

Dennis can be reached at dennis at mantuan dot org (for the Apple users) or HERE for others. Smile.

Richard Rohr website is HERE and is excellent. There is a daily meditation available and the comments on this podcast were drawn from the meditation for August 25, 2025.

Dennis apologizes for having "been away" but he is back. The podcast is still a work in progress. Peace.

This is my take on a resolution we will be voting on at our Annual Conference.

I am not sure if it has an extended shelf life. I might bring it down after it serves its purpose.

This is simply an attempt to explain, in more time than I would have on Thursday, why I find a particular resolution problematic. The resolution is HERE.