In this episode, we are joined by Rev Erin Walter and Rev Justin Almeida to explore the Healing Spring — a place of rest, repair, and reconnection.

If the Stretching River is where we grow through challenge, the Healing Springs are where we pause, tend to what’s been stirred up, and reconnect to what sustains us.

The springs are made up of many pools: some for individual healing, some for collective repair, and others that overflow into the wider world.

And at the source of all of them is connection , connection to ourselves, to one another, to the earth, to our values, and to something larger than us.

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Music: "Where Do We Come From," by Brian Tate performed by Rev Christopher Lamb

In this episode we are excited to be joined by Lillian Drab Braddick and Moritz to explore the Stretching River — a place where communities face challenges, decisions, and opportunities that ask something new of them.

Sometimes those things that stretch us are challenges that arise naturally — in thinking about congregations this might be a board leadership transition, a new minister or staff person, or some moment that calls the community to respond together. But other times, they’re intentionally created — through games, learning experiences, or collaborative projects designed to stretch what a group can do together.

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Music: "Where Do We Come From," by Brian Tate performed by Rev Christopher Lamb

In this episode, we are joined by Jen Shattuck and Lena McCain to explore the Forest of Affirmation — a place where community pauses to notice and affirm what’s growing.

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Music: "Where Do We Come From," by Brian Tate performed by Rev Christopher Lamb