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Get One Good Word

We are surrounded by bad words. By “bad words” I don’t mean “swear words” so much as wasteful or harmful words. Every day, we are invited to an all you can eat buffet of content. I consume a lot of content, I’ll admit. But human beings can’t live on content alone. We are desperate for…

Keep Your Playdates

As Quaker leaders, we do serious and important work. We are charged with leading institutions, shepherding souls, laboring for social change, sharing divinely-inspired messages, providing care for the suffering, and more. With such serious and sacred work to do, we might think that we should always be serious and solemn. “No more laughing, no more…
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Hold on to the Holy Conjunction

One of my favorite musicals is Fiddler on the Roof. Tevye, the narrator and protagonist in the play, has a great respect for “tradition!” but he keeps coming upon situations that challenge his loyalties. His daughters keep falling in love with the “wrong” guys, for example. So Tevye often finds himself wandering around pondering his…

Make Footprints, Not Monuments

I read a quote a couple months ago, from the writer William Faulkner, that I haven’t been able to shake. He was talking about monuments vs. footprints. He explains: “A monument only says, ​‘At least I got this far,’ while a footprint says, ​‘This is where I was when I moved again.’” Making monuments is…
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Three Good Reminders

I need reminders. With all the data, information, opinions, suggestions, ads, and other input that I see in a day, I need reminders about what is important and what I need to do. I need assistance, not because my brain is faulty, but because it was designed with limits (whether I like them or not.)…
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Sing a New Song

A Friendly Reminder reflection from QLC By Andy Stanton-Henry As many of you know, earlier this month, the Quaker Leadership Center and Pendle Hill collaborated on a conference called “Publishers of the Truth.” The last couple of years, their Quaker Institute and our Quaker Leadership Conference happened around the same time, so we decided to……

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Della Stanley-Green

Director

Della is excited to see where God is leading the Center, ESR and the whole of the Religious Society of Friends. She is a Recorded Minister in Western Yearly Meeting and a trained spiritual director.

She recently completed a three-year interim as the leader of the Interim Co-Superintendent Team for Western Yearly Meeting of Friends, (33 Quaker Meetings in western IN and eastern IL). She also serves as an Adjunct Professor in the MBAOnline@UDayton program teaching “The Principled
Organization: Integrating Faith, Ethics and Work.”

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Andy Stanton-Henry

Associate director

Andy is a writer, Quaker minister, chicken-keeper, and distraught Reds fan. He holds degrees from Barclay College and Earlham School of Religion, and is a doctoral student studying Open and Relational Theology. He carries a special concern for rural leaders, leading to his recently published book Recovering Abundance: Twelve Practices for Small-Town Leaders. Andy has also trained in spiritual direction, labyrinth facilitation, conflict transformation, and entrepreneurial ministry. A native Buckeye, Andy now lives in East Tennessee with his spouse, Ashlyn, their blue heeler Cassie, and their laying hens. 

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Katrina McConaughey

Administrative Assistant

Katrina McConaughey is a lifelong Quaker originally from the Pacific Northwest. She recently relocated to central Indiana with her husband Shawn, after serving a four-year term with Friends United Meeting in Kenya. She is most proud of having raised two awesome adult children, but also loves gardening and is almost as proud to have grown a six pound sweet potato this year!