Author Archives: destinokristy
Values That Shaped Destino Winter Conference
" The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set ...
The Festive Prophetic – A “Both/And” Spirituality
I've been thinking lately about the phrase "festive prophesy" that I ran across in some writings by Fr. Virgilio Elizondo several months ago. He talked about how the Mexican-American identity embraced not just sorrow but also joy, and held the ...
Who Gets To Tell The Story?
I've been thinking and hearing a lot about story. Our organization's conference this summer highlighted story, I hear talks on how important it is, and I read blog posts about how to use storytelling to develop organizational identity. Just yesterday ...
Six Postures of Ethnic Minority Culture: Equal and Empowered Partnership
This is the last of five posts in a series on the newly released article, "Six Postures of Ethnic Minority Culture Towards Majority Culture". After reading the sixth posture please join the discussion in the comments. Posture #6: Equal and Empowered ...
Six Postures of Ethnic Minority Culture: Duty, Pleasing, and Unity and Assimilation
This is the fourth of five posts in a series on the newly released article, "Six Postures of Ethnic Minority Culture Towards Majority Culture". After reading the fourth and fifth postures please join the discussion in the comments. Posture #4: Duty ...
Six Postures of Ethnic Minority Culture: Silent and Resigned
This is the third of five posts in a series on the newly released article, "Six Postures of Ethnic Minority Culture Towards Majority Culture". After reading this third posture please join the discussion in the comments. Posture #3: Silent and Resigned The ...
Six Postures of Ethnic Minority Culture: Angry and Wounded
This is the second of five posts in a series on the newly released article, "Six Postures of Ethnic Minority Culture Towards Majority Culture". After reading this second posture please join the discussion in the comments. Posture #2: Angry and Wounded The ...
Six Postures Of Ethnic Minority Culture Towards Majority Culture
This fall I partnered together with staff from Epic, Impact, and Nations to create a new resource for ethnic minorities. Our goal was to create a paradigm that would allow for minority staff and students to describe their journey in ...
There is No Formula for a Successful Destino Movement
This blog post is born out of a really hard week in ministry, but I don't want to move quickly past this place of struggle. Here are my thoughts: In Destino, we often have people ask us for a step-by-step formula ...
Comunidad and Leadership
I just recently finished reading Henri Nouwen's book In the Name of Jesus. In it he talked about different temptations Christian leaders face. The one that stuck out to me had to do with what Nouwen called the temptation of ...