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Greetings!
In early August, the New York Times kicked off a conversation about clergy stress and burnout, and PBS worked with the CREDO office to get in-depth information about CREDO's research and work in the area of clergy wellness. The PBS segment included CREDO Conference C208 and ran on the program Religion and Ethics Newsweekly. It can be viewed HERE.Nearly 1,600 readers have signed up for A Guide to Spiritual Practice and receive semi-monthly insights on recognizing opportunities for spiritual discipline in everyday life. CREDO is exploring republishing the Guide, and we will announce those plans HERE as they develop. For Advent, we are introducing a new resource, A Window on Wellness. Advent isn't a season in which clergy are immune to stress. What to do about it? Take two minutes for your own spiritual care each day. --G. Herbert Gunn
CREDO Director of Communication http://episcopalcredo.org
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What Are You Waiting For?
If the question can be asked without the weight of impatience and impertinence that often accompanies it, What Are You Waiting For? becomes the foundational question of our faith, and specifically appropriate to the season that will soon be upon us: Advent.
But for most church leaders, the busy-ness of the season quickly overwhelms any sense of self-discipline and the patience necessary to fully enter into a quiet, expectant mindfulness. We seem to just not have the time to wait.
That's what CREDO offers this Advent--a minute each morning to wait, to reflect on what Advent is all about. Another minute to tempt ourselves with one health tip that could be the advent of a healthy change in our own lives.
Two minutes every day to ask: What are you waiting for?
 Sign up for A Window on Wellness. Each morning of Advent (beginning November 28), CREDO will send you a short, one-minute reflection by e-mail, prepared by CREDO faculty members, that may help center you for the day ahead. And we will include a health tip from Episcopal Church Medical Trust. What are you waiting for?
[Both CREDO Institute Inc. and Medical Trust are affiliates of Church Pension Group.]
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Financial Resources
A look at LegacyAlthough the legal world views legacy as something tangible, legacy also can be expressed intangibly, passed either intentionally or unintentionally from one generation to another in the form of beliefs and values, forgiveness given, forgiveness received, experiences shared, memories made, and stories told.
When speaking of identity, Erik Erickson created the word "generativity" and defined it as "concern for establishing and guiding the next generation."
Dr. John Kotre, a psychology professor (now retired) from the University of Michigan, has dug deeper and broader into this field and summarizes generativity as "You receive something from the past, you create something out of it, and you pass it on to the future."
This article and his "Seasons of Life" videos are good food for thought as you consider your legacy.
[CREDO Institute, Inc. provides post-conference resources through its Web site as a way to continue the conversations introduced at a CREDO Conference. Find CREDO post-conference resources on Wellness HERE.]
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New spiritual resource enjoys huge response
A Guide to Spiritual Practice
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 Written by CREDO faculty members Renée Miller and Brian Taylor, A Guide to Spiritual Practice combines a thoughtful introduction to spiritual discipline followed by 20 fresh reflections on discovering spiritual renewal in everyday life.
ExploreFaith.org presently features the series and offers its readers a chance to sign up to the subscription list, which has surpassed 1,500 readers. Find out what you may be missing.
Click HERE to find previously released reflections and to begin or update your CREDO Profile to receive reflections from A Guide to Spiritual Practice twice a month.
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