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Jay Voorhees is a pastor, writer, and community activist located in Nashville, TN. Jay currently is the pastor of the City Road Chapel United Methodist Church in Madison, TN, and is engaged in helping to connect others to the example and teaching of Jesus Christ and to take seriously Christ’s call to love our neighbors in radical ways. Jay is the co-founder of The MethoBlog, a site that aggregates the writings of Methodist-related bloggers throughout the world, and is the former managing editor of The United Methodist Reporter. Jay has been involved in the United Methodist Church at both the local and national level since 1988. Jay is also the owner of Only Wonder Media, a boutique book and media publisher. View all posts by Jay Voorhees
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She has another great talk that is a follow up to this. http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame.html
Brene sure is good at that.
You might want to look at Karen McClintock’s “Shame-less Lives, Grace-Full Congregations,” which examines many of those themes specifically in a congregational context. http://www.alban.org/bookdetails.aspx?id=9777.