Gather the Wisdom, Weave a Dream®
Why this space
Many communities today are standing at a crossroads.
The old maps are not useless. But they are no longer enough. Religious life, faith-based leadership, and the wider human family are being invited into a deeper kind of transformation — one that asks for honesty, courage, grief, imagination, and trust.
For now, At the Crossroads offers occasional written reflections on transformation, leadership, discernment, and the future of religious life. Over time, this space may also include brief essays, quarterly briefings, audio reflections, videos, and other resources as they become ready.
Reflections From the Crossroads
A growing series of brief reflections for personal reading, leadership conversation, and community discernment. Begin with the first reflection, or continue with the most recent one below.
Reflection 1: Seeing With New Eyes
The first reflection in this series invites us to consider what it means to look again at our lives, our communities, and the future trying to emerge among us.
Seeing With New Eyes is also available in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and French.
Reflection 2: Gather the Wisdom, Weave a Dream
This second reflection invites communities to gather the wisdom of their lived experience — the stories, losses, learnings, graces, and unfinished hopes that may still have something to teach us — and to listen for the dream trying to take shape now.
Gather the Wisdom, Weave a Dream is also available in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and French
What you’ll receive
Reflections
Brief essays for personal reading, leadership conversation, and community discernment.
Soundings
Four times per year the Soundings will take the measure of a world and a Church in transition, listen for the movement of Spirit among seekers, and asks what is ending, what is emerging, and what is being asked of us now.
Podcast and Video
Future audio and video reflections for those who prefer to listen, watch, or share with others.
Receive New Reflections
Subscribe to receive occasional reflections and updates on new resources, podcasts, and videos as they become available.
No flood of emails. No noise. Just a steady offering when there is something worth sending.
A word from Ted
After many years of writing, facilitating, teaching, and walking with religious communities, I am creating this space as a way to stay connected and to keep sharing what I am seeing.
Some of these reflections will draw from my books and articles. Some will emerge from current conversations with leaders and communities. Some will simply ask the questions that seem to be asking us.
I hope this becomes a useful place to pause, listen, and look again.
Dr. Ted Dunn
Clinical Psychologist, Author, Consultant, Speaker