<div>Ken -</div><div>Thanks for these updates on the work and lifes of Gene and Joyce.</div><div>jean long in chicago<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Ken Fisher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wanaki@frontenac.net" target="_blank">wanaki@frontenac.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<font size="3" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div style="font:12px/normal Palatino;margin:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal"><font size="3" face="Arial">Here's the news from Realistic Living.</font></div><div style="font:12px/normal Palatino;margin:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">
<font size="3" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div style="font:12px/normal Palatino;margin:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal"><font size="3" face="Arial">Gene turned 81 on January 3rd, and is 'back', after overcoming 'a pause' occasioned by recent surgery. Joyce will be 79 on February 19. They founded Realistic Living in 1984, regularly publishing a journal and many books since that time. I much admire there life-time commitments to social activism and recreating Christian practice and theology for the 21st Century.</font></div>
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<font size="3" face="Arial">Here in our little village of Sharbot Lake Ontario, Pat and I use Joyce's Ignatian-like solitary on a near daily basis, and weekly we use the format of RL's Christian Resurgence Circle - dance, study and prayer. We are planning our third trip to Bonham for June.</font></div>
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<font size="3" face="Arial">Recently, he wrote (with the significant input of four others) <i style="font-weight:bold">The Road From Empire to Eco-Democracy.</i> It is being well reviewed and used as a study book in a variety of contexts.</font></div>
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<font size="3" face="Arial">He has just competed a protean work, </font><b><font size="3" face="Arial">The Enigma of Consciousness - </font></b><span style="font-size:14px"><b><i><font face="Arial">A Philosophy of Profound Humanness and Religion.</font></i></b></span></div>
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<font size="3" face="Arial">Together, these books represent a comprehensive and futuric tour of a new social vehicle and a new religious mode.</font></div><div style="font:12px/normal Palatino;margin:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">
<font size="3" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div style="font:12px/normal Palatino;margin:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal"><font size="3" face="Arial">For me, they provide contemporary screens for discerning where it is that the human community is having, or can have, breakthroughs in creating a new world. As well, they provide an enthralling invitation to deepen ones personal spirit practices and social engagements.</font></div>
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<div style="font:12px/normal Palatino;margin:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><b>The Road</b></font></div> can be ordered from Amazon or from:</div><div><div style="font:12px/normal Palatino;margin:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">
<font size="3" face="Arial">Gene Marshall 3578 N. State Highway 78 Bonham TX 75418</font></div></div><div><div style="font:12px/normal Palatino;margin:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal"><font size="3" face="Arial">$21 - postage free</font></div>
</div><div><div style="font:12px/normal Palatino;margin:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal"><font size="3" face="Arial">Gene Marshall <<a href="mailto:jgmarshall@cableone.net" target="_blank">jgmarshall@cableone.net</a>></font></div>
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<font size="3" face="Arial"><b>Enigma </b></font></div> can be downloaded free from <a href="http://www.RealisticLiving.org/PDF/Enigma/" target="_blank">http://www.RealisticLiving.org/PDF/Enigma/</a></div></blockquote><div>
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<font size="3" face="Arial">His latest book is entitled </font><span style="font-size:18px"><b><font size="3" face="Arial">The Love of History and the Future of Christianity - </font></b></span><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="Arial"><b style="font-style:italic">A Manifesto for a Post-Christendom Christianity.</b><i> </i>Every human community is 'awe-struck'. What is unique and worth forwarding into the future </font></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14px">about Christianity</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14px">? We look forward to its completion.</span></div>
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<font size="3" face="Arial">Realistic Living's resources can be found at </font></div><div style="font:12px/normal Palatino;margin:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><br></font></div>
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<font size="3" face="Arial">Staff member Alan Richard, maintains RL's highly imaginative and spiritually informative Facebook page at </font></div><div style="font:12px/normal Palatino;margin:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">
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