Talk:Numinous programme
Can we have what is important for different religions - not just Christianity -----Snowded TALK 17:25, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
Updated proposals for what the Numinous programme offers religious leadership
Congregational Leadership: Faith communities are the co-creative partnership between clergy and lay leadership, and frequently include additional relationships among their broader communities. The ways leadership is entangled inside and outside the community of faith is an important and essential dynamic indicator of vitality and sustainability. The leadership landscape related to clergy, lay, and broader communities offer a variety of ways to understand mutuality and collaboration that exists within these spaces, and where public life, trust and civic engagement flourish.
BIPOC Leadership: The leadership roles of Black, Indigenous, People of Color is having an impact on a variety of religious communities today, most notable is the Black Lives Matter Movement. While many religious organizations are still racially segregated, some are embracing racial and ethnic identity as essential perspectives that enhance their own life as communities of faith. Tracking how these streams are interrelating is helpful toward understanding the adaptive leadership opportunities and challenges emerging for today's communities of faith.
LGBTQIA+ Leadership: Religious organizations are broadening their leadership circles to include marginalized populations who previously, under traditional organizational leadership models, have been underrepresented. Emerging LGBTQIA+ leaders, and the communities they are forming, are having an influence on other local communities of faith, as well as the neighborhood communities they are situated within.
Religious Imagination: Religious leadership is shaped by the way religious communities organize and embody configure their identities in the world. Religious imagination has both formal (i.e. doctrine, worship/liturgy, prayer, sacred text), and informal (i.e. innovative experimenting, relationship to neighbors, civic partnerships, lay leadership vocations, etc) dimensions to it, and are, often times, of central importance to how religious leadership renegotiates their meaning differently because of their pluralistic, and divergent contexts.
Clergy Leadership Health: Many clergy in today's faith communities are overwhelmed, anxious, depressed by the enormity of the expectations to lead communities of faith, from levels of expertise, to expectations, to personal demands. The toll it takes on leaders today has significant impact on the health of communities of faith, the caring systems that support them, including the neighborhoods frequently benefiting because of them.
Interfaith Leadership: Interfaith grassroots movements among religious traditions are rising up in response to such things as Islamophobia, and other industrialized complexes rooted in xenophobic tendencies. These movements are creating training programs to build paths to understanding, and with commitments toward multi-faith peacemaking. See Paths to Understanding.