Week 6 - To Bryan

Great input. I think your insight is right on track to look at the patterns of historically imperialistic nations and compare that to the patterns and practices of large multi-national corporations today. Particularly poignant was your suggestion that the powers and principalities urging on such corporations may be the "same" as those moving within the practices of imperialistic nations.

We may even want to expand our exploration further to check out how the practices of the global corporations are representing the imperialistic desires and influences of their counrties of origin... doing the dirty work for them... replacing the expansion that used to take place militarily or politically.

I also apprecite your thoughts on use of global media by Jesus-followers. I agree, simple message delivery of the "verbal" gospel seems to have been the ocus historically and recently. However, if what we are about it the power of the Gospel to not just repsresent propositional truths, but to transform lives and communities with the power of reconciliation, then YES, we should definitely be advocating global media's potential to be used to urge just such systemic cultural change.