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Ryan Andersen

Lead organizer/executive director, Calgary Alliance for the Common Good

Ryan Andersen is the lead organizer/executive director for the Calgary Alliance for the Common Good. Previously Andersen was the pastor at Advent Lutheran Church in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Ryan Andersen: Relevance is still relevant

By Ryan Andersen Lead organizer/executive director, Calgary Alliance for the Common Good

If, that is, relevance is a matter of connecting the depths of our tradition with the depths of the world’s longings.

Ryan Andersen: There are no individual leaders

By Ryan Andersen Lead organizer/executive director, Calgary Alliance for the Common Good

The leaders I talk with speak not of their own work, but of that of communities that make leadership possible (or block it).

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