Fetzer Appoints Dr. Anna Sun to Its Board of Trustees

The Fetzer Institute announces the election of Anna Sun, PhD, to its Board of Trustees, effective June 1, 2023. Dr. Sun is an associate professor of Religious Studies and Sociology at Duke University. Her scholarly work focuses on Confucianism and...

Compassionate Leadership a Spiritual Innovation?

Compassionate leadership, a rare skill set, is a core competency Uvinie Lubecki is dedicated to making commonplace through her work with Leading Through Connection. No stranger to the business sector, Uvinie has worked in the start-up world selecting, managing, and...

Sparking Religious Curiosity in Today’s Youth

No one can prepare you for the type of grief that comes with losing a parent at an early age. Yet, I discovered a silver lining in the process: a deeper understanding of my faith. Don’t get me wrong: there...

Dear Spiritual Innovators, You Are Not Alone.

The first time I heard the word “spiritual innovators” was at a gathering at the Fetzer Institute called Sharing Spiritual Heritage. I looked around the room of extraordinary spiritual leaders and thought they probably made a mistake by inviting me....

Three ways to foster self- and holy care at work

Love is a pretty big part of our workplace vocabulary, but that’s probably what you would expect from a place with a mission to help build the spiritual foundation for a loving world! But honestly, love can have a place...

Is Spirituality an Indicator of Human Flourishing? 

What does it mean to live well? To be truly healthy? To thrive? Researchers and clinicians have typically answered these questions by focusing on the presence or absence of various pathologies: disease, family disfunction, mental illness, or criminal behavior. But...

Conversation Circles for Chaplains of Color: Updates, Innovations, and New Groups

This January, The Chaplaincy Innovation Lab (CIL) launched Conversation Circles for Chaplains of Color as part of our work with the Fetzer Institute to support and build networks for spiritual care providers. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, racial...

My Grandmother’s Gift: An Ethic of Sacred and Transformational Love

My grandmother cried when I told her that I was going to be a political organizer. I remember her smile, the one I counted on for affirmation and love in a world that often felt challenging, quickly disappeared. I couldn’t...

Toward a Spiritual Infrastructure of the Future

By Diana Scearce and the SSH project team Spiritual innovation is happening all around us. From taking church to the streets of Skid Row to proclaiming rest as resistance within a productivity-obsessed culture, spiritual innovators are expanding the boundaries of...

Decades of Chronicling Spirituality in Everyday Life

I have been so inspired by the lives and work of Frederic and Mary Ann (whom I have come to know through my work as a program officer at Fetzer) for "tracking down the sacred in the nooks and crannies...