Sorry I didn't see you in this part of WA (Derby)!! Check it out next time, you would be most welcome.
Andrew Watts -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Amelia Koh-Butler Sent: Thursday, 4 November 2004 6:54 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: One for Harry! Hi All, I'm back from 10 days in WA! Walter Wink has said quite a lot about "Corporate Spirit" - particularly in relation to the concept of "Powers and Principalities" (see the "Powers" trilogy and subsequent book entitled, "The Powers that be"). He raises questions about... - what kind of spirit are corporate bodies driven by? (businesses, charities, churches, etc) - what is the nature of corporate identity and responsibility, as opposed to individual identity and responsibility? - how is the Holy Spirit distinct and desirable by comparison to other concepts of spirit? Now Wink is not a "radical pente", but more of a conservative Christian educator with a few radical discipleship tendancies... pretty standard reading in Christian Education circles. He is really seeking to develop the idea that a group is more than the sum of its individuals - and should be! i.e. there is a group dynamic borne of a group spirit. So - some questions for us... - how much of an e-discussion-list is corporate, group-stuff and how much is collective individualism? - what group dynamics are at work? - how much involvement do we expect the Holy Spirit to have in our discussions? (for me that sometimes may mean when does the server go down?- ;) ) - how responsibile are we about the relationships developed in this setting? These are intended as open-ended questions without right or wrong answers. Rather, I am suggesting that the discussion about corporations might provoke us into thinking about how we express corporate responsibility and a spirit of cooperation and understanding. If we model it, maybe we have started on the journey to sharing it more widely... Blessings, Amelia KB YW Amelia Koh-Butler Associate Director ELM (Education for Mission) > Board of Education - NSW Synod > Uniting Church in Australia > 16 Masons Drive, North Parramatta NSW > Ph: (02) 8838 8908 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The information in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee(s). > Access to this e-mail by anyone else is unauthorised.Any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken,is prohibited and may be unlawful. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg... "That may say something about the pathology of corporations." ------------------------------------------------------ - You are subscribed to the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the message body 'unsubscribe insights-l' (ell, not one (1)) See: http://nsw.uca.org.au/insights-l-information.htm ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------ - You are subscribed to the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the message body 'unsubscribe insights-l' (ell, not one (1)) See: http://nsw.uca.org.au/insights-l-information.htm ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------ - You are subscribed to the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the message body 'unsubscribe insights-l' (ell, not one (1)) See: http://nsw.uca.org.au/insights-l-information.htm ------------------------------------------------------
