Spare Brainpower
At the risk of sounding like a Clay Shirky fanboy (see here and here), there’s some great stuff in this TED talk about what we all do with our collective 1 trillion hours of spare time. Most interesting to me was the differentiation between collaboration that is communal vs. that which is civic.
I so desire our churches to become more collaborative in their approaches to teaching, learning and worship. Watching this video, that desire grew, but it also made me realize the importance of distinguishing between these two kinds of collaborative efforts. In what types of settings should we seek to collaborate in a way that builds community, and which settings should we be concerned more about the civic effect? And … how does the Church do both well?
