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The theology of the Art of Hosting

November 24, 2022 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Being, Collaboration, Community, Complexity, Emergence, Featured, Flow, Learning, Podcast, Practice 2 Comments

In the Art of Hosting world we have a few shared core teachings that show up in nearly all the learning workshops that happen. At some point we talk about complexity – we usually explore the Chaordic Path as a simple introduction into complexity – and we always touch on the Four Fold Practice of the Art of Hosting.

Back in 2014 I was doing a project with the United Church of Canada looking at the different levels of their structure in British Columbia and imagining what they could also be. If there is one thing that Churches have consistently done from the beginning it is that they adopt new forms. At the moment the United Church, and many other mainline progressive Christian denominations, are going through a massive shift, probably the biggest one since the Reformation. And it’s affecting everything.

So as I was doing this consulting work I started meeting communities of people who were asking how could they live through these transitions. Not survive them necessarily, but go with the transformation that was happening. As a part of the work I was doing I started offering talks and workshops based in the Art of Hosting, but wrapped in the theology of the United Church, becasue it turns out that having a way to understand complexity and to host life community is both necessary in struggling churches AND is pretty much the basis of Christian practice.

Now for those who don’t know, the United Church of Canada is a progressive, liberal Protestant denomination committed to radical inclusion and social justice. I was raised in that Church and at one point had my heart set on becoming a minister in that Church. My own spiritual practice is grounded in contemplative Christianity and I am an active member of the Bowen Island United Church where I help lead worship and preach one Sunday a month so we can give our paid minister a break.

That is just context to help you understand the theology behind this talk.

This talk was a keynote for the Northern Presbytery of British Columbia annual meeting from 2014. That year the churches of northern BC were gathering in Prince George to be together and practice being a bigger community. They invited me to come and speak on the work I was doing around community building and I chose to share the Chaordic Path and the Four Fold Practice and I relished the chance to share these ideas using stories and teachings from scripture.

So if you work with Churches or Christian religious communities and you are interested in the way the Chaordic Path and the Four Fold Practice basically help us use the teachings of both the Hebrew Scriptures and the Gospel in practice to build community, click here and have a listen.

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Running the Goat

December 26, 2009 By Chris Corrigan Podcast 2 Comments

Resolution for the new year is to post more links to cool things I am listening too.  I’ve been a fan of podcasting for a long time, and get most of my radio and music now through the web.  There is so much out there that is cool.

For this first post, a podcast that was recently re-aired on Radio Netherlands.  It is called Running the Goat, and is a documentary about a dance from the vanished village of Harbour Deep, Newfoundland.  The dance was a staple in the community and is strongly associated with the 350 year history of the village.  Harbour Deep stopped existing in 2002, never managing to recover from the the 1992 closure of the inshore cod fishery.

The dance however, lives on.

Chris Brooks hosts Running the Goat.  And for more on Harbour Deep: visit A Map of The Sea.

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A podcast with Dave Pollard

October 2, 2007 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Being, Leadership, Learning, Open Space, Podcast, Unschooling 3 Comments

Last week Dave Pollard, author of How to Save the World interviewed me for his first podcast.   We had a lovely conversation about essential human capacities, Open Space, unschooling and leadership.   Head over to Dave’s quite excellent and prolific blog and have a listen.   You can also download the podcast here.
And thanks to Dave for inviting me in.

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Island Time podcast

October 5, 2006 By Chris Corrigan Podcast 2 Comments

Many of you know that I have been writing for five years about living on Bowen Island, off the west coast of Canada. With the advent of Artisan Radio, a small community radio station that also streams to the web, I have returned to my radio roots with a show produced by my family, called “Island Time.” The first episode of Island Time is online, as a podcast. You can find it hosted at the Internet Archive, where you will also find show notes and three different audio formats.

Download the mp3 here.

Shownotes

00:00 Intro
00:38 Bowen Moment – Cocoa West Soundscape
02:31 Our Island’s Ours Again
06:41 Bowen Moment – Deep Bay summer afternoon Soundscape
09:53 Searching for plumnose anemones at the Union Steamship marina
16:43 Bowen Moment – First fall rain
19:04 Making jelly from wild berries
28:04 Outro and creditsProduced by Chris Corrigan, Caitlin Frost, Aine Corrigan-Frost and Finn Corrigan-Frost for Artisan Radio (http://www.artisanradio.com0 88.7FM, Bowen Island, BC, Canada.For more information chris@chriscorrigan.com

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