Can we talk?
Tom Brackett boldly goes where no clergy usually dare to, and asks the difficult questions out loud. This time: why don’t we have a healthy approach to embracing “failure” at work, and learning from it, instead of shuffling it quietly off into the corner? Tom’s observation is that this trend in Church is one of the things that leads to far too many of our most energetic and talented personnel leaving the Church altogether.
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Noting Jonny’s mention of the difficulty of Church Planting in the culture of the Episcopal Church, do you not have the ultimate expert on your doorstep – Richard Kew (Ridley Hall), who did one himself (?), was a key figure in the Episcopal Towards 20/20 churchplanting initiative (national committee?) and saw the initiative dismantle itself amongst the Episcopal culture wars?
http://richardkew.blogspot.com/2009/10/reflections-on-2020-report-of-2001.html
Well this rings bells. Only yesterday my boss told us minions that there was no point talking about past mistakes, we need to look to the future. But if we can’t talk about past mistakes, aren’t we just doomed to repeat them?
(I can’t help feeling that the mistakes we can’t talk about are the ones he himself has made)
Hackneyed:
“History Repeats itself.
Has to.
No one listens”