The next time you watch a flock of geese, pause for a moment — think about what they can teach us about ministry in general and, especially, “long-haul” ministries of systemic change.
Mindwalk Podcasts: Latest posts and thoughts…
What Can We Learn From Grasshoppers?
“When you first capture the grasshopper, it jumps and jumps and jumps, trying to get out, banging its head against the lid.”“But the longer the grasshopper’s in there, the less high it jumps, the less it tries, until finally it just sits on the bottom.
Connecting Lent, Valentine’s Day, and Systemic Change
At first glance, it may seem like quite a stretch to connect Ash Wednesday, Valentine’s Day and Systemic Change. But hear me out. Actually, it is not that hard.
Someones Drowning! What Would You Do
https://famvin.org/en/2018/09/12/someones-drowning-what-would-you-do/
What’s With This “New Thing” Called Systemic Change?
https://famvin.org/en/2018/09/05/whats-with-this-new-thing-called-systemic-change/
The Limits of Pope Francis’ Imagery
https://www.cmeast.org/2018/08/22/the-limits-of-pope-francis-imagery/
Lord, Teach Us to Think Anew!
Are we ready to leave the box of our normal thinking and to find the opportunity that lies disguised in this challenge. Show us the truth that will set us free.
Why Did Pope Francis Make These 10 Startling Statements?
“We are moved because “we have seen and heard” not a cold statistic but the pain of a suffering humanity, our own pain, our own flesh.”
Holy Week – the greatest change in human consciousness
“Do you understand what I have done for you?”… I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. … Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them. John 13: 11-17
First Systemic Change National Congress in Panama, February 15-18, 2018
The Vincentian Family in our Region of Panama is asking questions… very significant questions… about how to serve more effectively!
Incarnation as the Mother of all Systemic Changes
We are called to live the systemic change of the Incarnation.
Vincentian Values and Systemic Change at Niagara University
Niagara professor and student collaborate in the kind of social analysis that is part of understanding systemic change.
Seeing – the beginning of systemic change
Seeing is the necessary beginning of systemic change. Systemic change requires looking anew at something we see…but do not see. This kind of seeing is really more like reading, reading the “signs of the times.” St. Vincent was a man of the concrete whose starting point is direct knowledge of events about which he reflects […]