Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership with Ruth Haley Barton
Religion & Spirituality:Christianity
We’re back! This season we’re focusing on worship, particularly worship that is transformative. Our season long guest is Rory Noland and we will be working with his book, Transforming Worship: Planning and Leading Sunday Services as If Spiritual Formation Mattered. In addition to Ruth and Rory, we will also be bringing other guests into the conversations about worship with spiritual formation at its core. This season is for all who worship, not just pastors and leaders who plan the weekly services!
In today’s episode Ruth and Rory are joined by Aaron Damiani, an Anglican pastor, to discuss the worship practice of Communion. Ruth and Rory share about their own painful experiences trying to celebrate the eucharist across denominations in the early days of Transforming Community and the three talk about how to wade into the places of tension the Lord’s table can hold. They also tackle why the eucharist is an important part of transforming worship and how to make communion transformative if it’s become a rote practice.
Aaron Damiani serves as the Rector (Lead Pastor) of Immanuel Anglican Church in Chicago and is the author of The Good of Giving Up: Discovering the Freedom of Lent (Moody, 2017) and Earth Filled With Heaven: Finding Life in Liturgy, Sacraments, and other Ancient Practices of the Church (Moody, 2022). Aaron writes and speaks regularly about spiritual formation, leadership and recovering the gifts of the ancient church for today's challenges. Aaron and his wife Laura live with their four kids in Chicago's Irving Park neighborhood.
Rory Noland is the director of Heart of the Artist Ministries, an organization dedicated to serving artists in the church. He mentors worship leaders, speaks at churches and conferences, leads retreats for artists, and consults with churches in the areas of worship and the arts. Rory is also a trained spiritual director, a published songwriter and has authored five books, including the best-seller, The Heart of the Artist: A Character-Building Guide For You and Your Ministry Team. Rory earned a Doctoral Degree from the Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies. He was part of TC2 and led worship for the The Transforming Center for fifteen years.
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Mentioned in the episode:
Transforming Worship: Planning and Leading Sunday Services as If Spiritual Formation Mattered by Rory Noland
All music in this episode is featured on the Transforming Resource, The Lord is In Our Midst CD
Earth Filled With Heaven: Finding Life in Liturgy, Sacraments, and other Ancient Practices of the Church by Aaron Damiani
Music Credit:
Kingdom Come by Aaron Niequist
Springs of Living Water from Music in Solitude
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The Transforming Center exists to create space for God to strengthen leaders and transform communities. You are invited to join our next Transforming Community:® A Two-year Spiritual Formation Experience for Leaders. Delivered in nine quarterly retreats, this practice-based learning opportunity is grounded in the conviction that the best thing you bring to leadership is your own transforming self!
Easter Monday | Transforming Post-Resurrection Encounters with Jesus (A Replay)
S22 Ep7: Walking With Jesus in His Suffering During Holy Week
S22 Ep 6: A Hope That Does Not Disappoint
S22 Ep 5: This is Hard! The Role of Endurance in Forming a Durable Hope
S22 Ep4 | Hope in the Midst of Collective Suffering
S22 Ep 3 | What Does God’s Glory Have to Do With Our Suffering?
S22 Ep 2 | Compassion and Curiosity: Attuning to Different Parts of our Suffering
S22 Ep 1 | What’s Suffering Got to Do With It (Our Transformation)?
BONUS: Preparing for Lent | Fashioning Your Own Desert
Visio Divina Guided Practice | Assumptions
Season 21: Honest Advent | Week 4: Where is God in the Unfolding?
Season 21: Honest Advent | Week 3: Where is God in My Humanity?
Season 21: Honest Advent | Week 2: Where is God in my Vulnerability?
Season 21: Honest Advent | Week 1: Where is God in My Uncertainty?
Season 21: Preparing for Advent: Honest Longings, Honest Questions
Season 20: Episode 7 | This is Fun, Y’all: The Joy and Hope of Transforming Worship
Season 20: Episode 6 | What about my puppets? Beyond Programming to Worship that Changes Us
Season 20: Episode 5 | Worship on Earth as it is In Heaven: The Transforming Power of Diversity
Season 20: Episode 3 | Re-thinking Sunday Mornings: Creating Space for God
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