{"id":2043,"date":"2013-05-27T04:15:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T02:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.wordpress.com\/?p=2043"},"modified":"2013-05-27T04:15:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T02:15:48","slug":"interview-with-david-brubaker-overcoming-organizational-enslavement-in-a-chaotic-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/2013\/05\/27\/interview-with-david-brubaker-overcoming-organizational-enslavement-in-a-chaotic-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with David Brubaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><i><a title=\"David Brubaker\" href=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/david-brubaker.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2045 alignleft\" alt=\"David Brubaker\" src=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/david-brubaker.jpg?resize=143%2C190\" width=\"143\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a>Pope Francis, in his Pentecost homily, invited us to be aware of transient structures which have lost their capacity for\u00a0openness. He said:\u00a0&#8220;Are we open to &#8216;God\u2019s surprises&#8217;? Or are we closed and fearful before the newness of the Holy Spirit? Do we have the courage to strike out along the new paths which God\u2019s newness sets before us, or do we resist, barricaded in transient structures which have lost their capacity for openness to what is new? We would do well to ask ourselves these questions.&#8221;<\/i><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><i>In this new interview David Brubaker shares with us his evolving thinking on the role of organizations in the ongoing quest for human freedom and dignity.<\/i><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><i>In today\u2019s \u201cinformation revolution\u201d the volume of information entering and circulating within every healthy organization is indeed overwhelming. When we see information as \u201cnourishment\u201d we are much more likely to drink at its wells and also to share it freely than when we see it as a finite source of \u201cpower.\u201d David concludes the interview inviting us to integrate love in our leadership. He says: \u201cThose of us who are leaders, formal or informal, must also strive to be lovers.\u201d <a title=\"David Brubaker\" href=\"http:\/\/www.breathingforgiveness.net\/2013\/05\/anti-slavery-campaign-interview-series_26.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE<\/a><\/i><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a title=\"David Brubaker\" href=\"http:\/\/www.breathingforgiveness.net\/2013\/05\/anti-slavery-campaign-interview-series_26.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2048\" alt=\"David Brubaker 02\" src=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/david-brubaker-021.jpg?resize=629%2C138\" width=\"629\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/david-brubaker-021.jpg?w=763&amp;ssl=1 763w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/david-brubaker-021.jpg?resize=300%2C66&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/a><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis, in his Pentecost homily, invited us to be aware of transient structures which have lost their capacity for\u00a0openness. He said:\u00a0&#8220;Are we open to &#8216;God\u2019s surprises&#8217;? Or are we closed and fearful before the newness of the Holy Spirit? Do we have the courage to strike out along the new paths which God\u2019s newness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[396,493],"class_list":["post-2043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","tag-david-brubaker","tag-enslavement"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}