[Dialogue] Epps' Theology of Surprise

[George Holcombe]

Surprisingly, Amazon sent it the next day, though I had it on standard delivery.  It took me two sittings to read through it (you really don't want to put it down).  Some parts reminded me of the witnesses at Daily Office in the old Jet Hanger, and other parts of JWM's dramatic orations in room E or his eye piercing conversations around the table in the cubicle, while still others brought me back to the classroom with Shubert Ogden at Perkins (not many will have that memory).  But it also reminded me of the intent and thrust of our HDP experiment and in the final chapters threw me up against the decisions I have on my hands at the moment.  Some of it will require a little "chewing" through the theological language; after all John is a theologian, but it's well worth the trip, and the tramping through our categories of experience is a delight.

For me, this has been the best of our efforts going forward, and hopefully our writers will give us more.

Surprisingly enough, the first article I read on the web after putting down the book was one written by Desmond Tutu entitled the God of Surprises. http://www.onbeing.org/program/desmond-tutus-god-surprises/85
Thanks John, spot on.

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On Sep 17, 2013, at 3:32 PM, Joyce Sloan <jsloan45 at gmail.com> wrote:

> OMG!! I totally agree with Lynda and thank all of you archive angels! Reading through this history became a meditative event as I was thrown into reflection over the profound impact that 14 years of sojourn with EI/OE/ICA had been for my life. I have no doubt that this work is a critical record of reference for the world in the unending task of human development and sustainability.
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> Grace and peace,
> Joyce Sloan
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> Dear Archives Angels,  What an amazing piece of work this history is.  Thank you so much for capturing it so beautifully for all of us to get re-excited about as we read of this vocated team stretching back through the years and continuing into the future.  
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> With gratitude, Lynda and John Cock 
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