About Between the Times

Most congregations and organizations do not experience transition as a clean break between chapters. They experience it as a stretch of time where familiar patterns no longer hold, the future is not yet clear, and the pressure to act often outruns the clarity needed to act well.

Between the Times is written for leaders tending communities through change. It begins from the conviction that transition is not an interruption to be managed, but a condition to be inhabited faithfully. The work of leadership in these seasons is rarely dramatic or tidy. It is patient, attentive, and consequential—often carried out without applause and sometimes without clear resolution.

This newsletter offers reflection and perspective for that kind of work.

The essays return again and again to the questions that surface in transitional leadership: attention and urgency, power and restraint, conflict and discernment, loss and hope. They are written from inside the lived realities of congregational and organizational life, not from a distance. The aim is not to provide templates or techniques, but to help leaders see more clearly what is already unfolding in the systems they serve.

Between the Times is not a space for quick answers or best practices. It does not promise fixes, optimization, or certainty. Instead, it takes seriously the reality that congregations and organizations are living systems—shaped by history, relationship, identity, and emotion—and that faithful change takes time. The work here is interpretive rather than prescriptive, grounded in the belief that how leaders pay attention profoundly shapes what becomes possible.

The newsletter is published every two weeks. Each issue stands on its own, though over time the essays form a coherent conversation. You do not need to read everything in order, and you do not need to agree with everything you find here. The invitation is simply to stay present to the work, to resist the rush to resolution, and to tend what is alive in the community you serve.

Between the Times is written by Micah Jackson, an Episcopal priest and organizational leader whose work brings together theological reflection, systems thinking, and lived leadership, with particular attention to authority, discernment, and time.

If this way of thinking resonates with you, you are welcome here.

More will emerge.

For now, this is enough.