In the style of Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg’s Life Is a Sacred Text Substack, I’ll be diving more deeply into the topic of the week - sometimes with more resources, sometimes with more that didn’t quite fit into the free post, sometimes with questions that I have or that you have.
Really enjoyed your "Plastic on the Furniture" sermon linked here, Kimberley. Especially the discussion of needing to let go of things, traditions, people that are no longer serving us well. You ask such a key question: "What are we sacrificing in order to preserve this thing?" I wish we could all take a deep dive into this idea of opportunity cost. Because by holding onto a specific thing/person/tradition year after year, we are missing out on the benefits that could accrue to us from adopting a different approach, or finding different leaders, or working to shift our culture toward new more healthy ways, etc. I'm not thinking so much here about my UU congregation, but another nonprofit where I'm a board member that is simply paralyzed by it's traditions.
Really enjoyed your "Plastic on the Furniture" sermon linked here, Kimberley. Especially the discussion of needing to let go of things, traditions, people that are no longer serving us well. You ask such a key question: "What are we sacrificing in order to preserve this thing?" I wish we could all take a deep dive into this idea of opportunity cost. Because by holding onto a specific thing/person/tradition year after year, we are missing out on the benefits that could accrue to us from adopting a different approach, or finding different leaders, or working to shift our culture toward new more healthy ways, etc. I'm not thinking so much here about my UU congregation, but another nonprofit where I'm a board member that is simply paralyzed by it's traditions.