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Agents of Communion, Francis
Joan Duggan was co-founder of a very successful company, which she later sold. She then worked in the corporate world for a while, but eventually gave almost all of her money away and founded an EoC-minded tutoring startup in upstate New York, which she helped manage for over 2 decades. Here Joan Duggan describes a central aspect of the Economy of Communion-- namely that EoC asks us to be agents of communion-- and she describes what that means. She says that an EoC approach to business calls us to approach every person we encounter with a view that we can be in unity with this person somehow-- even like the Trinity (the Christian concept that Jesus, the Holy Spirit and God the Father are all distinct, but also One at the same time).
- Joan notes that being Agents of Communion means finding a way to live with everyone. How does this go against the status quo of our modern business environment?
- How does typical business view customers we encounter? How does it view employees or coworkers?
- What could someone do to try to live this striving to develop relationship with others in their daily encounters with others inbusiness? Have you ever experienced this?
- How might normal relationships differ from those relationships we find in the Holy Trinity?