Buchman had a similar belief in the capacity of small groups to influence events, especially if responsive to God’s leading. He envisaged small groups of people taking responsibility for their countries and situations. One of his supporters used the phrase a ‘cabinet of conscience’ to express the idea of a group of people thinking about the moral and spiritual needs of a society.
These paintings of birds, once again by Segestråle, are depictions of community. In the first of them, the birds could be seen as flying together on some kind of mission.
The second of the paintings has a family feel to it. Buchman thought that unity in the family was key to unity in the workplace – the domestic and professional sides of life overlap.
