How the "Two Loops" theory helps us think about Leaven

In this video:

• Leaven’s Director-Organizer Alison Killeen offers the first of two frameworks for thinking about Leaven: the Two Loops theory of how systems change (via the Berkana Institute)

• Leaven emerges out of the dominant system of American Christianity - to create something new, different, and liberating

• Leaven has the potential to build community that is secular, communical and spiritually grounded, and which moves us toward inner, outer and collective change

Resources:

• The slidedeck Alison shared

• American Religion is Not Dead Yet - The Atlantic, January 2023

• “How We Gather” by Casper ter Kuile and Angie Thurston, 2015

• "I left the church… and now long for a “Church of the Nones”, Washington Post, 2023

• The Largest and Fastest Religious Shift in America is Underway - NY Times, June 2023

• “The Art of Gathering” by Priya Parker, 2020

• “The Power of Ritual” by Casper ter Kuile, 2020

• The Berkana Institute (creators of Two Loops)

Secular-Spiritual Communities of Practice:

• Not Sorry Productions

• The Nearness

• The Dinner Party

• The On Being Project

• … and so many more!