Our church was holding elections this morning for the pastoral council. So much to talk about, but just a few quick points here. 1) I'm a huge fan of democratically-structured institutions of civil society. At my wife's request, we go to a Catholic church, which I have always rated low the self-democracy scale. It's an international institutions with a pretty strong hierarchy preaching a pretty strong organizational authoritarianism and providing little congregation control over decision-making at the local or regional level. So I was pleased to see the ballot boxes out today, even if the organizational structure doesn't allow for a whole lot of democratic decision-making and the elections were for what is, more or less, an advisory council..
Church Democracy
Church Democracy
Church Democracy
Our church was holding elections this morning for the pastoral council. So much to talk about, but just a few quick points here. 1) I'm a huge fan of democratically-structured institutions of civil society. At my wife's request, we go to a Catholic church, which I have always rated low the self-democracy scale. It's an international institutions with a pretty strong hierarchy preaching a pretty strong organizational authoritarianism and providing little congregation control over decision-making at the local or regional level. So I was pleased to see the ballot boxes out today, even if the organizational structure doesn't allow for a whole lot of democratic decision-making and the elections were for what is, more or less, an advisory council..