PROGRAMS
Designed with and for young adult leaders, Polaris offers several programs to resource you and amplify your leadership. If you are a leader between the ages of 23 and 29, explore our workshops, online courses, and fellowship program. Each welcomes leaders into a supportive community with like-minded peers, engages spiritual practices to sustain you holistically, and offers tangible support to amplify your leadership.
Map
The Polaris Leadership Network is mapping the ecology of organizations who call young adults who are Christians into leadership and equip them to lead. This landscape is emergent and evolving. Organizations include non-profits, professional organizations, ministries, and networks. Explore the map, learn about a variety of programs, and suggest new organizations to add to the map.
Recommended Reading
While many organizations serve and resource leaders, the Polaris Leadership Network resources leaders for whom Christian faith motivates and shapes their leadership. Because Christians are called to all facets of public life, this means that faith-shaped leadership happens in diverse contexts and spheres of influence. The readings identified below are not meant to be exhaustive in terms of leadership development in general, but narrowly focus on Christian spiritual practices that are used within current Polaris programs.
Resources for Discernment
- Cahalan, Kathleen. The Stories We Live: Finding God’s Calling All Around Us. Eerdmans, 2017.
- Buechner, Frederick. Telling Secrets: A Memoir.Harper Collins, 1991.
- “The Daily Examen.”Online resource. Ignatian Spirituality, a Service of Loyola Press.
- Reyes, Patrick. Nobody Cries When We Die: God, Community, and Surviving to Adulthood. Saint Louis, Missouri: Chalice Press. 2016.
- Rosenberg, Marshall B. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life. PuddleDancer Press, 2015.
- Sheldrake, Philip. Befriending Our Desires. Liturgical Press, 2016.
- Migliore, Daniel. Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction to Christian Theology. Eerdmans, 1991.
- Placher, William C. (editor). Callings: Twenty Centuries of Christian Wisdom on Vocation. Eerdmans, 2005.
- Reyes, Patrick B. “A Call to Life.” Interview with Shari Oosting. The Distillery, November 15, 2019. Podcast, 32:03.
Books on Sabbath
- Allender, Dan B. Sabbath. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2009.
- Brueggemann, Walter. Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now. Revised edition.
- Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2017.
Hersey, Tricia. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto. New York: Little, Brown Spark, 2022. - Heschel, Abraham Joshua. The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man. Expanded edition. New York:
Farrar, Straus and Young, 1951. - Stucky, Nathan T. Wrestling with Rest. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2019.
- West, Travis, and Winn Collier. The Sabbath Way: Making Room in Your Life for Rest, Connection, and
Delight. 1st edition. Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2025. - Wirzba, Norman. Living the Sabbath: Discovering the Rhythms of Rest and Delight. Grand Rapids:
Brazos Press, 2006.