<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Thanks Marilyn & Joe for your helpful sharing....and all the other sharing too. <div>Meaningful and reflective dialogue are key to the future. Thanks for to all who have shared their wisdom in books, developing the Archives and continuing to live a life On Behalf of ALL🌠🌎🌍🌏</div><div>Grace & Peace</div><div>Wanda<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Sep 3, 2019, at 9:16 PM, Ann Ensinger Ensinger via Dialogue <<a href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="ydpe361d0a0yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div></div>
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On Tuesday, September 3, 2019, 07:50:16 PM MDT, Mari Crocker via Dialogue <<a href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv3252993863"><div><div class="yiv3252993863" style="word-wrap:break-word;">I love Jim’s probing questions in response to Jack’s pronouncements about all the places “we failed.” </div><div class="yiv3252993863" style="word-wrap:break-word;"><br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"></div><div class="yiv3252993863" style="word-wrap:break-word;">And I appreciate Dick’s gentle defense, based on his experience in the trenches of each. </div><div class="yiv3252993863" style="word-wrap:break-word;"><br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"></div><div class="yiv3252993863" style="word-wrap:break-word;">I also appreciate Jack’s subsequent expansive philosophical commentary that, as only Jack can, enlarged the context such that none of us really disagree.</div><div class="yiv3252993863" style="word-wrap:break-word;"><br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"></div><div class="yiv3252993863" style="word-wrap:break-word;">But I do.</div><div class="yiv3252993863" style="word-wrap:break-word;"><br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"></div><div class="yiv3252993863" style="word-wrap:break-word;">I believe we DID win in renewing the historic church as it existed in the latter part of the 20th century (via RSI and our comprehensive curriculum -the Academy), in large part by expanding Religious Houses (via initiating the LCX and Parish Outreach Projects), and globalizing our work via HDP Replication (via Town Meetings, HDTS and Global Collegia such as the IERD.). And then the “we” had become the “us” — so many people of myriad cultures, languages and faiths, working “as local people, to build the earth, the planet earth."</div><div class="yiv3252993863" style="word-wrap:break-word;"><br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"></div><div class="yiv3252993863" style="word-wrap:break-word;">I measure our “win” versus “failure” in the words of human beings whose lives were “utterly changed/transformed” by their interaction with us, the OE, the ICA, the “blue shirts”, etc…….Joe and I have heard those words, over and over again. These need not be documented in polls or quantitative research. I trust these voices are echoed in our archives and can contradict themes of “failure.”</div><div class="yiv3252993863" style="word-wrap:break-word;"><br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"></div><div class="yiv3252993863" style="word-wrap:break-word;">Grace and peace, Marilyn (and Joe)<br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"><div class="yiv3252993863yqt9796433314" id="yiv3252993863yqt80406"><div><br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"><blockquote class="yiv3252993863" type="cite"><div class="yiv3252993863">On Sep 3, 2019, at 10:05 AM, Jack Gilles via Dialogue <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv3252993863" ymailto="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div><br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="yiv3252993863"></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div><div class="yiv3252993863yqt9796433314" id="yiv3252993863yqt40194"><div><div class="yiv3252993863" style="word-wrap:break-word;">Dick,<div class="yiv3252993863"><br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"></div><div class="yiv3252993863">I just wanted to affirm your response to my rather glib use of the word “failure”. All of creation, through a sensitive and response capacity, experiments with new forms. They are then constantly refined in the creative process over eons of time to what became lasting. So do we humans. We evolve through experimentation, learn from that experience and adjust. So we certainly were trying to be responsive to a vision of, (HDP, for example), what the new local needs to look like. We may not have succeeded but we learned. And it is that learning (and experimenting) that needs to be shared with other awakened one; and the time is short. You are exactly right: “failure is what drives life”. One thing clear to me is the new paradigm <b class="yiv3252993863">is</b> here. The question is how fast that new paradigm becomes the operating paradigm. Telling the New Story is the new evangelism. </div><div class="yiv3252993863"><br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"></div><div class="yiv3252993863">Thanks!!</div><div class="yiv3252993863"><br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"></div><div class="yiv3252993863">Jack<br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"><div class="yiv3252993863"><br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"><blockquote class="yiv3252993863" type="cite"><div class="yiv3252993863">On Aug 30, 2019, at 16:18, Richard Alton via Dialogue <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv3252993863" ymailto="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div><br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="yiv3252993863"><div class="yiv3252993863">Great question Jim: I did a lot of replicating and would not describe any of them as failures or for that matter the 3 religious houses and for that matter a life time of church renewal- all have been awesome experiences, although would agree if you are saying the basic nature of life is failure....failure is what drives life<br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863">Dick<br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"><br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863">Sent from my iPhone<br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"><br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"><blockquote class="yiv3252993863" type="cite">On Aug 30, 2019, at 1:15 PM, James Wiegel via Dialogue <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv3252993863" ymailto="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"><br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863">Jack: you said in a recent email . . .<br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"><blockquote class="yiv3252993863" type="cite"><br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863">We failed at replication, but now we know why.<br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"></blockquote><br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"><blockquote class="yiv3252993863" type="cite">We failed at expanding Religious Houses, but now we know why.<br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"></blockquote><br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"><blockquote class="yiv3252993863" type="cite">We failed at renewing the historical Christian church, but now we know why.<br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"></blockquote><br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"><blockquote class="yiv3252993863" type="cite">I tried hunting around the archive website and looked a bit around <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv3252993863" target="_blank" href="http://wedgeblade.net/">wedgeblade.net</a>. Is there a document somewhere that outlines these “why’s”?<br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"></blockquote><br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863">_______________________________________________<br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863">Dialogue mailing list<br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv3252993863" ymailto="mailto:Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv3252993863" target="_blank" href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net</a><br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863">Dialogue mailing list<br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv3252993863" ymailto="mailto:Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv3252993863" target="_blank" href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net</a><br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"></div></div></blockquote></div><br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"></div></div>_______________________________________________<br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863">Dialogue mailing list<br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv3252993863" ymailto="mailto:Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"><a href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net</a><br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"><br clear="none" class="yiv3252993863"></div></div></div><div class="yqt9796433314" id="yqt23748">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Dialogue mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" href="mailto:Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net</a><br clear="none"></div></div>
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