tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10326675.post8797040254984859248..comments2024-02-15T03:32:25.686-05:00Comments on Preludium, Anglican and Episcopal futures: The Network Paradigm, a la TREC, and real hope.Mark Harrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06871096746243771489noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10326675.post-68359736777245085742014-10-02T09:04:51.482-04:002014-10-02T09:04:51.482-04:00Borg, anyone? Perhaps we might start this way: wh...Borg, anyone? Perhaps we might start this way: what if we begin seeing ourselves as a federation of dioceses with a common core (BCP, Episcopal R&D, etc.) overseen in a conciliar fashion by a once a decade GC with 80-90% of daily/weekly/annual functionality devolved to dioceses and parishes? Within the federation, Episcopalians as individuals would be free to network with peers across the dioceses/parishes to influence their dioceses without insisting that the whole Church take one position. Thoughts?<br /><br />George Herbert, Jr Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10326675.post-4977147450601418042014-09-08T02:09:01.852-04:002014-09-08T02:09:01.852-04:00TREC has never defined what it thinks a network is...TREC has never defined what it thinks a network is or just how that is supposed to serve TEC’s brave new world. “Network” calls to mind nodes connected to one another, in which authority is distributed, not centralized. TREC seems to have attached itself to the buzzword “network” without any real sense of what that implies.Lionel Deimelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08363018512775944659noreply@blogger.com