<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">George,<div><br></div><div>Here it is.</div><div><br></div><div>Jack</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 17px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">A Mini-Library for a 21st Century Spirit Movement</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">This brief book list is constructed around the notion that the life, work, and legacy of Joseph W.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Mathews constitutes a revelatory event which has both an “Old Testament” set of writings that</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">illuminates it and a “New Testament” set of writings that also illuminates it. For my “before</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Mathews” selections, I have chosen one easy to read book from each of the five theologians who most</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">influenced Mathews' life and contributions. And for my “After Mathews” selections, I am listing what I</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">believe have been the most significant books that have been written about Joe Mathews or written in</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">the wake of Joe Mathews by some of those who were “shaped” by him and who attempted to further</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">expand and update the opening in Spirit living that he initiated.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">(Assembled by Gene Marshall and reviews written by Joyce Marshall, Gene Marshall, Alan Richard, Ken Fisher)</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Selections of Classic 20th Century Theology</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">H. Richard Niebuhr -- <i>Radical Monotheism and Western Culture</i></font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Paul Tillich -- <i>The Shaking of the Foundations</i></font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- <i>Life Together</i></font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Rudolf Bultmann -- <i>Primitive Christianity in its Contemporary Setting</i></font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Søren Kierkegaard -- <i>The Sickness Unto Death</i></font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Palatino; "><b><i style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Each of these authors wrote many other books, and many other authors (secular and religious) shaped Mathews thinking</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Palatino; "><b><i style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">and life. But these selections provide a baseline grasp of where he was grounded in the Spirit upwellings of his century.</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Spirit Movement Writings</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Theology and Spirit</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font: 11.0px Palatino"><b>John Epps -- <i>Bending History: </i></b></span><b><i>Talks of Joseph Wesley Mathews</i></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font: 8.0px Palatino"><b><i>with: </i></b></span><b>John Cock, George Holcombe, Betty Pesek, and George Walters</b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b>Richard Elliot -- <i>Falling in Love with Mystery: </i></b><span style="font: 9.0px Palatino"><b><i>We Don’t Have to Pretend Anymore</i></b></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b>John Cock -- <i>The Transparent Event: </i></b><span style="font: 9.0px Palatino"><b><i>Post-Modern Christ Images</i></b></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font: 11.0px Palatino"><b>-- <i>Our Universal Spirit Journey</i></b></span><b><i>: Reflection and Verse for Creation’s Sake</i></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b>Brian Stanfield -- <i>The Courage to Lead: </i></b><span style="font: 9.0px Palatino"><b><i>Transform Self, Transform Society</i></b></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b>John Baggett -- <i>Seeing Through the Eyes of Jesus: </i></b><span style="font: 9.0px Palatino"><b><i>His Revolutionary View of Reality &</i></b></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Palatino; "><b><i style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">His Transcendent Significance for Faith</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b>Wesley Lachman -- <i>The Shortest Way Home: </i></b><span style="font: 9.0px Palatino"><b><i>A contemplative Path to God</i></b></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font: 11.0px Palatino"><b>Desmond Avery -- <i>Beyond Power</i></b></span><span style="font: 10.0px Palatino"><b><i>: </i></b></span><b><i>Simone Weil and the Notion of Authority</i></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font: 11.0px Palatino"><b>Gene Marshall -- <i>The Enigma of Consciousness: </i></b></span><b>A Philosophy of Profound Humanness & Religion</b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font: 11.0px Palatino"><b>-- <i>Jacob’s Dream: </i></b></span><b><i>A Christian Inquiry into Spirit Realization</i></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font: 11.0px Palatino"><b>-- <i>The Call of the Awe: </i></b></span><b><i>Rediscovering Christian Profundity in an Interreligious Era</i></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">-- <i>Great Paragraphs of Protestant Theology</i></font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Biography and Autobiography</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b>James K. Mathews -- <i>Brother Joe: </i></b><span style="font: 9.0px Palatino"><b><i>A 20th Century Apostle</i></b></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b>John Cock -- <i>Called to Be: </i></b><span style="font: 9.0px Palatino"><b><i>A Spirit Odyssey</i></b></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font: 11.0px Palatino"><b>Jeanette Stanfield <i>-- “Just Checkin’ on ya”: </i></b></span><b><i>My journey of being a caregiver for a loved one</i></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Social Vision and Life Methods</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font: 11.0px Palatino"><b>John Epps -- <i>Bending History: </i></b></span><b><i>Talks of Joseph W. Mathews, Vol. II, toward a New Social Vehicle</i></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font: 8.0px Palatino"><b><i>with</i></b></span><b><i>: </i>James Campbell, James Wiegel, Clarence Mann, Marilyn Crocker, and George Holcombe</b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Gene Marshall -- <i>The Road from Empire to Eco-Democracy</i></font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font: 8.0px Palatino"><b><i>with</i></b></span><b>: Ben Ball, Marsha Buck, Ken Kreutziger, and Alan Richard</b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font: 11.0px Palatino"><b>Brian Stanfield </b></span><b>-- </b><span style="font: 11.0px Palatino"><b><i>The Art of Focused Conversation: </i></b></span><b><i>100 Ways to Access Group Wisdom in the Workplace</i></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b>-- </b><span style="font: 11.0px Palatino"><b><i>The Workshop Book</i></b></span><b><i>: From Individual Creativity to Group Action</i></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font: 11.0px Palatino"><b>Priscilla Wilson </b></span><b>-- </b><span style="font: 11.0px Palatino"><b><i>The Facilitative Way</i></b></span><b><i>: Leadership that Makes the Difference</i></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font: 8.0px Palatino"><b><i>with</i></b></span><b>: Kathleen Harnish and Joel Wright</b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">- 1 -</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 17px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Brief Reviews of</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 17px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">A Mini-Library for a 21st Century Spirit Movement</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">written and edited by Gene Marshall, Joyce Marshall, Alan Richard, and Ken Fisher</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Selections of Classic 20th Century Theology</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Radical Monotheism and Western Culture</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">H. Richard Niebuhr</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Harper Torchbooks: 1943</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">This book defines the very word “theology” for the 20th Century Theological</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Revolution in Christian thought. So defined, theology is not about believing in a</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">supreme being or power. The struggle is not between a theism that believes in such a</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">divine being and an atheism that does not. In the Niebuhr analysis everyone has faith</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">in something that serves as his or her God or gods and goddesses. Whatever gives</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">meaning to your life is properly called your worship. Niebuhr defines three types of</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">worship: (1) polytheism in which many meaning givers characterize your worship, (2)</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">henotheism in which your social group provides your overarching meaning and</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">loyalty, and (3) monotheism is which Reality as a Whole is your worship – in which</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">faith or trust is attached to the Void out of which all things come and to which all things</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">return. This Void is also the Every-thing in which all things cohere. Niebuhr then</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">shows how radical monotheism relates to Incarnation, Revelation, Religion, Politics, and</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Science. If the shapers of a Next Christianity were to read only one book of 20th</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Century theology, this is it.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">The Shaking of the Foundations</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Paul Tillich</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Charles Scribner’s Sons: 1948</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">This collection of 22 sermons on Old and New Testament passages shows clearly how</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">the basic breakthrough in Christian understanding requires a shake up in our culture’s</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">familiar presuppositions, overall attitudes, and programs of action. In these talks Tillich</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">clarifies how a contemporary person of integrity can appropriate words and topics such</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">as: God, Time, Existence, Holy, Religion, Providence, Love, Truth, Spirit, Christ, Sin,</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Grace, and more. These topics are not skimmed over but probed deeply. If these</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">sermons seem difficult it is not because they are hard to read, but because what is said</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">requires so much re-evaluation of life on the part the reader. We may need to read</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">other books by this author to meet Tillich, the philosopher, social critic, and systematic</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">theologian, but this book allows you to meet Tillich, the person – and perhaps your</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">own person as well.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Life Together</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Dietrich Bonhoeffer</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Harper and Row: 1954</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">The communal nature of Christian practice was a core theme in Bonhoeffer’s life and</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">writings that characterized everything, beginning in his 20s with his fabulous doctoral</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">thesis and lasting to his death at the hands of the national Nazi “anti-community” that</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">he so thoroughly opposed. <i>Life Together </i>goes straight to the vulnerable heart of living</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">together within the Word of forgiveness that restores humans to their authenticity. He</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">makes it painfully clear that Christian community is not an ideal that progressive</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">- 2 -</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">leaning leaders impose upon the reality of a group of people. And he also makes it</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">clear that the “real” community of Christian living is not about the idolization of the</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">ego strengths of an accomplished leader who binds others to his charisma. Though</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">some of Bonhoeffer’s orthodox language needs to be translated for our times, he may</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">be, among all the great 20th Century theologians, the most existentially personal. It is</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">essential to a viable spirit movement that we take this interpersonal wisdom into our</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">intimate circles of practice.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Primitive Christianity in its Contemporary Setting</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Rudolf Bultmann</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Meridian Books: 1956</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Bultmann’s emphasis was excellence in scientific New Testament scholarship and the</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">translation of the New Testament message from two-story metaphors into one-realm</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">down-to-Earth ways of talking about our fundamental existence. So penetrating was</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">his work, that theologians in this century tend to be divided into (1) those who think he</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">went too far and (2) those who think he did not go far enough. <i>Primitive Christianity </i>is a</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">helpful choice from among his many writings, for it explores in an existential manner</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">the historical context for the New Testament writings. With respect to our own lives,</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">we get an understandable summary of the Old Testament Heritage, first Century</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Judaism, the Greek Heritage, Stoicism, Gnosticism, and more. Then we get an</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">exploration of how the original Christian community used and opposed all these</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">influences. At some point in our Christian education, we all need this grasp of our</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">origins as a community of faith, and we need to learn Bultmann’s method of seeking</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">the existential truth that breaks open for our era these Spirit expressions from an</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">ancient time.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">The Sickness Unto Death</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Søren Kierkegaard</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b>first published in 1849 under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus</b><span style="font: 12.0px Palatino"><b>.</b></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Princeton University Press: 1941</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">published with <i>Fear and Trembling</i></font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Kierkegaard considered <i>Sickness </i>“his most perfect book.” In it he defines sin, not as the</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">opposite of virtue, but as the opposite of faith (by which he meant trust in the given</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Mysterious Eternality with which we are inescapably related). Because we are</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">inescapably a Mystery-related mystery ourselves, our unwillingness to be so related is</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">a condition that can be described as despair. Sin is despair. We can be in an</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">unconscious form of despair in which the despairer hides this unacknowledged</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">sickness. Or our despair can become painfully conscious, but still hidden away behind a</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">reserved, accommodating exterior. Or despair can break to the outside into a desperate</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">plunge into noble work or sensual debauchery. And despair can become a defiant</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">project of self-created selfhood that can be resolved in the twinkling of the eye into the</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">nothingness that it is. Finally, despair can become a defiant project of dismal living that</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">“proves” to the despairer and to the world that the whole of Reality is “no damned</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">good.” Kierkegaard satirical description of these states of despair needs to have its</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">place as a vivid picture in the memory of every leader of Spirit transformation and</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">nurture.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">- 3 -</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Spirit Movement Writings</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Theology and Spirit</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Bending History</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b><i style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Talks of Joseph Wesley Mathews</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span style="font: 12.0px Palatino"><b>John Epps </b></span><b><i>with: </i>John Cock, George Holcombe, Betty Pesek, and George Walters</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Resurgence Publishing: 2005</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">This first of two volumes of Mathews’ talks focuses upon the religious and Christian</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">aspects of Joe’s ministry. These well-selected sets of talks reveal the “soul” of this</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">amazingly intuitive and creative critic and formulator of religious understanding.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Without ever ceasing to be a Christian and a church renewal advocate, Mathews looked</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">into the profound humanness that all religions access in their various ways. He spoke</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">of the revelation of a New Religious Mode that any religious renewal movement can</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">ignore only at the peril of losing all relevance for our times. His talks are spellbinding</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">in their colorfulness and aggressive combativeness with illusion. The editors of this</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">book have done an excellent job of choosing, arranging, and contexting these wild and</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">widely scattered contributions that Joe Mathews put forth. Take your time in reading</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">this book, and promise yourself to read it over again, for it is deep enough to continue</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">addressing us decade after decade into the future.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Falling in Love with Mystery</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b><i style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">We Don’t Have to Pretend Anymore</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Richard Elliott</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Dorrance Publishing: 1998</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">This book is an exception to the rule that theological writers are confused in their use of</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">the word, “God.” With simple, readable, and colorful life stories, Elliott tells us what it</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">means to confront the actual Mystery that will not go away and call that Mystery</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">“God.” He also explores the various tragedies which characterize most Christian</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">religion. He makes clear again and again how our religion is alienated from the actual</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">living of our lives. And he shares his breakthroughs on how we can proceed in</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">constructing a meaningful and relevant contemporary Christian spirituality. This book</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">makes a good study resource for small groups, and it can be read in small portions for a</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">daily solitary reflection.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">The Transparent Event</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b><i style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Post-Modern Christ Images</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">John Cock</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">tranScribe books: 2001 Second Edition</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">The core of this book makes it plain to us that everyone has some image of Jesus, of</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">what he means to us, and of what it means, or does not mean, to call him “the Christ.”</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">In this sense Christology is a pattern of thought for every human being. Cock</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">constructs exercises that enable the reader to discover what his or her current</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">“Christology” might actually be. In Section Two, Cock summarizes how a list of</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">renowned theologians think about this topic. Then in Section Three: “The Dynamics of</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">the Christ Event,” he republishes the amazing essay by Joe Mathews, “<i>The Christ of</i></font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><i>History,</i>” and spends the next chapter discussing it. He then writes a chapter on “The</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Christ Event in Life and Art” in which he shows how the dynamics of the transforming</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Christ event appear in ordinary secular art and thus in our everyday lives. In one</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">- 4 -</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">illustration in this chapter, he walks us through the Christ event in the life of Mountain</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Rivera in the movie, <i>Requiem for a Heavyweight</i>. Moving from the turning point</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">contained in this gem, Cock goes on to explore further his own Christology and share</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">other gems that might be helpful to the reader. In the end Cock returns the reader to</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">the challenge to work through his or her very own Christology.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Our Universal Spirit Journey</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b><i style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Reflection and Verse for Creation’s Sake</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">John Cock</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">transScribe books: 2002</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">This book, completed under the emotional shadow of the September 2001 attack on the</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">World Trade Center, attempts to develop an inter-religious language for the central</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">experiences of profound humanness expressed in the key symbols of the Christian</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">tradition. Cock takes up the challenge of the “secular religious” – the search for a</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">language of awe that we can share in common among historic religious traditions and</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">outside those traditions. In order to meet this challenge, he focuses on the word</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">“Spirit” which has been as troublesome for most of us as the word “God.” In order to</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">invite secular people into the conversation about the meaning of “Spirit,” Cock uses a</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">mixture of poetry, aphorism, and essay to show how Spirit is revealed in the ordinary</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">experiences of everyday life. This book can be useful for anyone interested in interreligious</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">dialogue and in the renewal of traditional theological language.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">The Courage to Lead</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b><i style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Transform Self, Transform Society</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">by Brian Stanfield</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">New Society Publishers: 2000</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Second Edition, iUniverse: 2012</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Also Available from: <a href="http://ica-usa.org">ica-usa.org</a> or <a href="http://ica-associates.ca">ica-associates.ca</a></font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">The premise of this book is that to transform society, we first need to transform</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">ourselves. The book includes a history of the Christian Faith and Life Community, the</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Ecumenical Institute, the Order:Ecumenical, and the Institute of Cultural Affairs – as</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">well as a summary of these sixty-years of amazing in-depth research and practical</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">experience by this network of people. The book is presently a bestseller on the</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">iUniverse bookstore site, having sold 9500 hard copies. And at least 1500 persons have</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">been in <i>Courage to Lead </i>study groups. The recent editing of this latest edition has made</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">the book even more accessible. Under the four headings of Relation to Life, Self,</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">World, and Society, 12 stances of an effective leader are laid out: everyday care,</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">disciplined lucidity, continual affirmation, secular depth, self-reflectiveness, radical</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">vocatedness, historical involvement, comprehensive perspective, inclusive</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">responsibility, social pioneer, transestablishment style, and signal presence. While often</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">autobiographical, the lives being shared illuminate all our lives. This book is for the</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">thousands of us who have participated in this 60-year journey, and it is also for all</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">“Those Who Care” who have found themselves called to lead.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Seeing Through the Eyes of Jesus</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b><i style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">His Revolutionary View of Reality & His Transcendent Significance for Faith</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">John Baggett</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">William B. Eerdmans: 2008</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">A whole new library of scholarly work on the historical Jesus has been produced over</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">the last three decades, much of it historically and exegetically rich but almost all of it</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">- 5 -</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">theologically thin. In <i>Seeing Through the Eyes of Jesus</i>, John Baggett addresses this</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">problem, showing how the painstaking historical and archaeological work these</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">scholars have performed can help us clear from our minds our obsolete images of</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Jesus. Baggett devotes the first part of the book to a highly readable and insightful</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">“biography” of Jesus informed by this scholarship. In the second part of the book, he</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">argues in detail that we must also clear away obsolete images of God and world as well</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">in order to hear the full impact of the address of Jesus' life to our own. In both parts</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Baggett uses the device of seeing through the eyes of Jesus, which means placing our</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">own lives within his life and thus rendering all these topics fully existential in their</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">meanings for the reader.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">The Shortest Way Home</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b><i style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">A contemplative Path to God</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Wesley Lachman</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">O Street Publishing: 2008</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Lachman, like many of us in recent decades, has been gripped by the power of</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">meditation/contemplation as a method of accelerating our Spirit journey into the</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">depths of our being. In the first eight chapters he shows us how contemplative work is</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">a valid quest for truth and how the contemplative heritage of Christianity is a strong</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">heritage along with the teachings from Hinduism and Buddhism that are making such</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">inroads in the awareness of so many of us. In chapter nine Lachman shows us how</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">contemplative wisdom illuminates the meaning of key Christian terms like “God,”</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">“Christ,” and “Holy Spirit.” The way he contrasts Holy Spirit with the ego’s humanly</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">created “<i>story of I</i>” is most illuminating. Here is a line that might stand as a summary of</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">the book: “Freed from the myopia caused by living within our own <i>story of I</i>, we begin</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">to appreciate the strange, wondrous people and things around us, as if for the first</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">time.” Lachmann illustrates how true compassion or Spirit love is a given part of our</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">being that bubbles to the surface of our living when the old <i>stories of I </i>are put in their</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">place. Freedom, too, is what we have left when <i>stories of I </i>no longer dominate. This</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">short book can be read again and again and still be a challenge.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Beyond Power</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b><i style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Simone Weil and the Notion of Authority</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Desmond Avery</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield: 2008</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">This is an immaculately scholarly and profoundly existential book. In terms of those</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">two criteria, its equal cannot be found among all the other great books produced by</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">descendants of the Joe Mathews breakthrough. <i>Beyond Power </i>is an illuminating</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">combination of Avery’s mastery of the Joe Mathews’ heritage and his thorough</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">dialogue with a truly great philosophical and religious writer. In philosophical and</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">sociological depth, Simone Weil is the equal of more well known figures like Simone de</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Beauvoir and Susan K. Langer. T. S. Eliot and Albert Camus acknowledged her as one</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">of the great writers of their century. Avery reveals her value for Christian renewal, has</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">mastered her story and writings, and has made her available to us in an accessible style.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">A Jew by birth, Weil forged for herself a radical Christian practice in the Roman</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Catholic style. Her decision not to be baptized had to do with her realization of the</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">contradiction between an honest mystical faith and the misuses of Christian institutional</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">power. This book is not an easy read, but not because of a cryptic style on the part of</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Avery or Weil. It is challenging because of the profound nature of the insights being</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">shared. She has raised issues that are still living-edge topics. We can profit from</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">reading this book, every page of it.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">- 6 -</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">The Enigma of Consciousness</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b><i style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">A Philosophy of Profound Humanness & Religion</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Gene Marshall</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">To be available in paperback in late 2012 or 2013</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">An advanced draft of this book can be downloaded now from:</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><a href="http://www.RealisticLiving.org/PDF/Enigma/">http://www.RealisticLiving.org/PDF/Enigma/</a></font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">In Part One of this book, a philosophy of truth is laid out in an accessible manner,</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">honoring the scientific approach to truth, but making clear that the contemplative</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">approach to truth is also crucial and absolutely essential for an exploration of profound</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">humanness and religion. Part Two uses the contemplative approach to truth to</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">examine and theorize about the basic enigma of consciousness as it appears in the</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">human species. In Part Three, profound humanness or Spirit is explored, described, and</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">shown to be a given within human existence. In Part Four, “religion” is redefined for</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">our time (a New Religious Mode) and various practices that characterize the meaning of</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">“religion” are described. Using the category of “Primal Metaphors” rather than Joe</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Mathews’ “Ur-Images,” Part Five explores the vast diversity of religious expression on</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">this planet. Part Six deals with “doing,” “historical engagement,” or “responsible</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">action” that derives from the states of Being outlined in Part Three. This is an ambitious</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">thought project, bringing to further clarity breakthroughs that Joe Mathews intuited</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">but did not live to finish fleshing out.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Jacob’s Dream</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b><i style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">A Christian Inquiry into Spirit Realization</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Gene Marshall</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">iUniverse: 2008</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Part One of this book is about the discovery of soul or the essence of being human.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Part Two describes the states of profound humanness pulled through the basic</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Christian categories of Trust, Love, and Freedom. Using the enneagram typology of</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">human personalities, Part Three describes the Fall from Spirit authenticity into</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">personality identifications. Part Four describes the stages of the journey home to our</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Spirit authenticity. Part Five explores the solitary, but also profoundly communal,</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">nature of the Christian life. This book focuses on the fulness of Spirit realization. To</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">put this in Christian language, it focuses on sanctification rather than justification. With</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">help from the enneagram heritage as well as from the current planet-wide flourishing</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">of Eastern religions, this book adds clarity on the fall from our posited authenticity to</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">our self-created and thereby illusory selfhoods. The capacity of the human species to</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">create symbols for and models of our reality turns out to be both our glory and power</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">but also our ability to lose ourselves in illusory facsimiles of the truth about ourselves</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">and our world. Our journey home to our reality entails becoming disentangled from</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">this illusion-making creativity and allowing our posited being to flower. Our own</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">journey and our witness to others requires this kind of clarity.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">The Call of the Awe</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b><i style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Rediscovering Christian Profundity in an Interreligious Era</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Gene Marshall</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">iUniverse: 2003</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">This book was the last of many attempts by the author to pull together the theological</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">revolution that rankled the Christian churches of the mid 20th Century and inspired so</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">many of us to teach courses in basic theology to tens of thousands of clergy and laity in</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">the decades of the nineteen sixties and seventies. Part One of this book moves through</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">- 7 -</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">the basic themes of Christian Heritage: Awe, Spirit, God, History, Jesus, Christ,</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Personality, Religion, and the Authority of Authenticity. Part Two is about the</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">enrichment of interreligious dialogue: (1) The Children of Abraham, Yahweh and Allah,</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">(2) The Asian Enrichment (especially Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism), and (3) The</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Return to antiquity (the Great Goddess recovery and the manyness of the Divine in</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">ancient tribal life). All these topics have needed and still need freshening up for the 21st</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Century. This book provides some basic summaries and ways to keep moving on these</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">topics.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Great Paragraphs of Protestant Theology</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Gene Marshall</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Realistic Living Press: 2005</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">This spiral-bound booklet focuses on key paragraphs from the writings of Rudolf</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Bultmann, H. Richard Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Each of the nine</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">chapters of Part Two provides a commentary on paragraphs taken from an essay or</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">chapter by one of these four authors. The aim is to break open the sometimes cryptic</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">language used by these authors in order to allow a more thorough grounding in our</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">lives of these groundbreaking insights. Part One introduces this process of discovery</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">by exploring three approaches to truth and the relation of these approaches to the three</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">aspects of the triune experience of God that has characterized Christian heritage. Part</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Three explores three types of Unitarianism that have fragmented the triune experience.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Part Three also demonstrates the openendedness of good Trinitarian theology rather</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">than the sort of dogmatic cocoon or box that orthodox Trinitarian theology has often</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">constructed.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Biography and Autobiography</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Brother Joe: A 20th Century Apostle</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">James K. Mathews</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Resurgence Publishing: 2006</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Joe Mathews’ younger brother James became a progressive Bishop in the Methodist</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Church, serving first in India and then in Boston. The two brothers were quite close,</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">assisting one another in important ways. Though less flamboyant than Joe, James was</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">a solid theologian and a forceful and beloved leader. Perhaps no one was more</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">qualified to write an intimate and yet objective story of Joe’s life than Jim. Those who</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">worked with Joe day-to-day in the Order:Ecumenical may have a more detailed view of</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">some aspects of Joe's creativity, but Jim’s story is a fair one and his skills as a writer</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">have served us well in giving us a picture of Joe’s complex story in easily</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">understandable chapters. This book definitely belongs in our mini-library of Spirit</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">movement books.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Called to Be</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b><i style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">A Spirit Odyssey</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">John Cock</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">transScribe books: 2000</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">This spiritual memoir contains the author's careful and passionate reflection on crucial</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">events and images recalled from his lifetime of inquiry into what it means to be a</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">human being standing before vast and impenetrable mystery. The Order: Ecumenical</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">is at the core of the book, both in terms of the amount of pages devoted to it and the</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">- 8 -</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">central role it plays in the author's self-understanding. The pages devoted to explaining</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">why the author ultimately left a body that had given him a sense of Spirit vocation he</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">could not find in the congregational church or secular society are worth the price alone.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Spirit colleagues who were in the Order or connected with it will find much to delight in</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">and much to ponder. And those who were never directly involved in the Order but</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">who see in it clues to a potential Christian renewal in the third millennium will want to</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">put this book on their shelf alongside Bishop James K. Mathews' <i>Brother Joe</i>.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">“Just Checkin’ on Ya”</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b><i style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">My Journey of Being a Caregiver for a Loved One</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">by Jeanette Stanfield, 2009</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Available from <a href="http://ica-usa.org">ica-usa.org</a> or <a href="http://ica-associates.ca">ica-associates.ca</a></font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Many of us may face going through the death process with a loved one. Jeanette</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Stanfield describes her own walk on that path with unflinching honesty. Her writing is</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">matter-of-fact, straightforward, and thereby deeply moving. Brian Stanfield was a fivefoot</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">giant of a man. Jeanette decided soon after she met him that she did not want to</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">miss sharing her life with this man. The main gift of this book is the attitude with which</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Brian and Jeanette face death. Recognizing death as a natural and good part of life, they</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">handle whatever sorrows and inconveniences it brings with wholehearted creativity,</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">not blaming or complaining, simply living it to the full.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Social Vision and Life Methods</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Bending History: Talks of Joseph W. Mathews,</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b><i style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Vol. II, toward a New Social Vehicle</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">John Epps</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><i>with</i>: James Campbell, James Wiegel, Clarence Mann, Marilyn Crocker, and George Holcombe</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Resurgence Publishing: 2011</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">This book contains some of Joe Mathews best talks, certainly his best talks on the spirit</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">dimension of envisioning and building a New Social Vehicle. Joe’s interest in social</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">engagement is part of his religious vision, his insight that the discovery of profound</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">humanness is also a discovery of the journey of “return” to the real world as a servant,</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">a servant who understands that in this day and age “all the Earth belongs to all the</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">people.” This includes all the economic resources, all the political decisions, all the</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">cultural gifts. For the individual person of any race or sex living in any place on the</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">planet, the whole story of life on this planet is her or his story and each person is to be</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">given the opportunity to participate in helping to create that story. This perspective is</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">an anathema toward an upper class who owns almost half of the economic resources,</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">makes all the big decisions, and hoards the best information, education, and cultural</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">wisdom. Structures need to be built that change that topdown pattern, that make</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">economic, political, and cultural democracy real in a very practical way. Joe was</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">passionate about steps that could be taken by “Those who Care” way ahead of the</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">political establishment, way sooner than anything we could vote for. So this book</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">includes talks on methods of action as well as challenges to Spirit depth and a prophetic</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">vision of the future. It may be surprising to some readers to see so much</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">thoughtfulness in the awareness of a mid-20th-Century person that still applies today.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Also the contexts and explanations applied to the various sections of this book by the</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">editors are excellent.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">- 9 -</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">The Road from Empire to Eco-Democracy</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Gene Marshall</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><i>with</i>: Ben Ball, Marsha Buck, Ken Kreutziger, and Alan Richard</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">iUniverse and Berrett-Koehler: 2011</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">This book is also about the master picture of a New Social Vehicle, herein called Eco-</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Democracy. By “empire” is meant a quality built into the mode of social organization</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">we have called “civilization.” A core vision of this book is seeing how we are in the</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">midst of a massive turning in human history that is at least as radical as the turning</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">from tribal societies to the pattern of civilization. Civilization is ending. Humanity does</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">not have to end with the end of civilization, but an alternative to civilization has to be</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">built with considerable haste. The ecological crisis was not as visible to Joe Mathews as</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">it is to the prophetic voices of the 21st Century. We can now see that our very first</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">priority is to reconstruct the economic, political, and cultural structures of human life</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">into compatibility with the real limits and possibilities of planet Earth. Part One of the</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">book is about ten basic ways that civilized people are waking up to the extent of our</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">crisis. Part Two and Three are about comprehensively envisioning an alternative</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">future. Part Four is about the “road” or “way” from our tragic “here” to a viable and</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">flourishing “there.” Part Four examines the plausibility of finding whistle points and</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">avalanches of change that can slide toward the unprecedented future we need to have.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">It is also about the forces that can envision, occasion, and guide that massive change. It</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">is about the strategies that can be employed and the roles each of us might take in</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">lifting our tiny corner of this massive weight. The insights of this committee-written</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">book have been fought over for four years, and the product has turned out better than</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">any of the coauthors imagined when they started. We need this book.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">The Art of Focused Conversation</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b><i style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">100 Ways to Access Group Wisdom in the Workplace</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Brian Stanfield</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">New Society Publishers, 2000</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Brian Stanfield and his colleagues pulled together scores of uses of the art form</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">conversation method pioneered by Joseph W. Mathews. This book focuses on its use in</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">the workplace, but it is adaptable to any group. If you are interested in community or</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">involved in any groups, no process is more valuable than this conversation. This book</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">tells the history of the creation of this method following Mathews' experience as a</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">chaplain in World War II, explains its purpose and its parts, tells how to lead such a</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">conversation, and offers 100 sample conversations for specific situations. The purpose</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">of such a conversation is to allow a group of people to process their experience (to</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">experience their experience, so to speak) by asking a series of questions in four different</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">levels: the objective, the reflective, the interpretive, and the decisional. This</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">conversation gives form to a natural process which (1) grounds us first in the reality of</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">life, (2) acknowledges the reality of our feelings, (3) looks at meaning based on the first</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">two steps, not on some abstract idea, and (4) moves us into the future from the wisdom</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">just discovered. This is a book of practical inspiration.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">The Workshop Book</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b><i style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">From Individual Creativity to Group Action</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><b>Brian Stanfiel</b><span style="font: 11.0px Palatino"><b>d</b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">New Society Publishers: 2002</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">This wonderfully practical book is a manual not only on the workshop method but on</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">consensus process and its facilitation, which essentially is how to enable full</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">- 10 -</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">participation and make meetings fun and meaningful. It is amazing how many</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">miserable meetings take place without anyone knowing that they could be different if</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">some basic skills were learned and used. Stanfield tells the history of the consensus</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">workshop method and its development and its use by the Institute of Cultural Affairs</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">since the 1960s. He lays out and explains the workshop steps of contexting the group,</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">brainstorming the ideas, clustering the ideas, naming the clusters, and resolving to</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">implement the results with a chapter on each of these five steps. He explains the role</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">and necessary skills of the facilitator, noting that when facilitators are best, people</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">barely notice them, thinking they did the work themselves. Included in the</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">responsibility of the facilitator is attention to space, time, mood, and the group itself.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Stanfield discusses each of these as well as potentially difficult situations, most of which</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">are dealt with by appropriate contexting and methods that focus and enable full</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">participation.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">The Facilitative Way</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b><i style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Leadership that Makes the Difference</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Priscilla Wilson</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><i>with</i>: Kathleen Harnish and Joel Wright</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">TeamTech Press: 2003</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Since the sixties, probably half a million workshops have taken place world wide, based</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">on the methods created by The Institute of Cultural Affairs. <i>The Facilitative Way </i>is a</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">highly motivating and comprehensive rendering of that intellectual capital. As our</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">times require corporations, government agencies and non-profits to evolve responses</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">to global transformation, this book provides practical and inspiring approaches to</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">engage organizational creativity and resolve. Commencing with “Leading is a</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Decision, not a Job Description,” there are seven successive, well-illustrated vistas: Make</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">a Difference, Mobilize Energy, Orchestrate Interactions, Generate Reflection, Ignite</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Action, Capture Learning, and What it Takes. Revisiting activities such as setting a</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">context, cultivating a compelling story, and others flow together to illuminate the</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">timely role of the facilitative leader.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Palatino; "><b style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Concluding Comments</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Every specific movement of Spirit rediscovery or of social change has its Old and New</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Testament. The writings of H. Richard Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, Dietrich Bonhoeffer,</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Rudolf Bultmann, and Søren Kierkegaard are clearly Old Testament to the movement</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">that Joe Mathews initiated. Other writers and their books may also qualify. Rudolf</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Otto’s <i>The Idea of the Holy </i>probably qualifies. Susan K. Langer’s <i>Philosophy in a New Key</i></font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">and Thomas Kuhn’s <i>The Structure of Scientific Revolutions </i>may also fill an essential niche.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Herman Hesse’s <i>Journey to the East </i>and Nikos Kazantzakis’ <i>Saviors of God </i>were</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">determinative literature for Joe and many others. And we cannot omit the works of</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Fyodor Dostoyevsky, especially <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i>. Also, Picasso, especially his</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">“Guernica” painting, has Old Testament standing for this movement. And this list is far</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">from complete.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">The “New Testament” writings for this movement are also larger in number than those</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">selected above. The talks of Joe Mathews are certainly core, and we believe the</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">writings listed and reviewed above can each be experienced as important clarifications</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">in the wake of this pivotal person. These diverse writings, though they may be</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">somewhat inconsistent with one another, nevertheless each give guidance to whatever</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">- 11 -</font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">movement of humanity continues to revere the inspiration that dawned in Joe</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Mathews. It does not matter that those of us who knew Joe best also knew his</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">limitations and failings. The important fact is that this limited person was willing to be</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">selected by Reality to be an initiator of a vast bending of history. Actually, his life was</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">only a potential for a vast bending of history. The baton has been passed to those of us</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">who have taken it or will take it. The “Augustine” who will synthesize our offerings for</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">the centuries to come may not yet have been born. And he or she may not be born</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">unless some of us run our laps of this race with sufficient effectiveness. Bending history</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">is an ongoing bending that in the end requires millions of benders. We have made a</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">beginning. Still to be realized is that fully effective coming together of a well-ordered</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">network that calls forth the millions of benders needed to realize the potential we have</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">glimpsed.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">- 12 -</font></i></b></div><div><div>On Aug 9, 2012, at 2:32 PM, Gwensinger wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font color="black" size="4" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
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