Resilience in Adversity: What I Learned from Starting a Church in New York City

This article is the first in a series exploring spiritual entrepreneurship and personal and organizational resilience.

I am a church planter. This is often what I will tell people I meet on the streets of Manhattan when they ask why I am here in New York City. Church planter? I explain that my family and I moved here from Dallas, Texas, to start a new church in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan.

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Finding Wow

Last year, as we prepared for High Holidays as a community, with our private and communal woes, we thought we knew the contours of the year ahead. We found out soon enough that we were wrong.

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On Pyramids and Impermanence

Roses, Thorns, and Buds

One of the many glues that binds our family together is our love of storytelling. We rarely miss opportunities to replay our highlights (and lowlights), reveling in the snowball effect as the stories gain meaning, matter, and momentum with each retelling.

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