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This House We Build
Lessons for Healthy Synagogues and the People Who Dwell There
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2006
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This one-volume guide to a healthy congregation combines the wisdom of a rabbi with the expertise of an organizational development consultant to demonstrate the power of positive relationships and show how to avoid some of the common traps that can lead to serious conflict. Using the life of the synagogue as its central illustration, this book gives vital lessons for congregations of any faith on how to be a healthy community of believers. Leaders and congregants alike are shown how to incorporate all their gifts for the creation and support of a healthy faith community. Synagogue life is considered through case studies—struggles over what to do with an endowment fund, a social action committee that no one joins, changing a worship service time, clergy transitions—which are examined for what they reveal about the struggles of congregations and their leaders to create healthy institutions. Each chapter integrates organizational theory and faith values in the pursuit of a deeper understanding of synagogue life. For non-Jewish congregations, the book offers rich insights into Hebrew texts and culture and the common elements between synagogue and church life. This House We Build enables both clergy and members to learn more deeply about creating and sustaining communities of faith in the course of inevitable transitions and everyday challenges.
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Copyright year
2006
ISBN-Print
978-1-56699-333-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-56699-678-5
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
366
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Acknowledgments No access
Foreword No access
1 Mission, Not Market No access
2 Becoming Businesslike without Becoming a Business No access
3 Is This a Place You Would Come If You Didn't Already Belong Here? No access
4 Why Can't We Sing the Traditional Oseh Shalom? No access
5 The Place and Space of the Communal Home No access
6 Relating to Authority No access
7 Beyond Membership: What Does It Mean to Belong to a Community? No access
8 Finding and Using Your Voice, Appropriately No access
9 Supporting Institutions That Support Us: Paying Your Real Dues No access
10 Charting the Course and Leading Us There No access
11 Staying Alive No access
12 Managing Healthy Boundaries No access
13 "Go in Strength": The Meanings of Clergy Transitions No access
14 Leadership and Followership in the Synagogue: The Lay-Professional Partnership No access
15 The Disturbances of Lay-Professional Partnerships No access
16 The Other Team: Rabbis and Professionals No access
