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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks to all, especially this pull-together by Marilyn and Joe.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Dialogue <dialogue-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net> on behalf of Holcombe Wanda via Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>Colleague Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, September 4, 2019 at 9:45 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Colleague Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Holcombe Wanda <wandah70@gmail.com><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Dialogue] “And now we know why”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks Marilyn & Joe for your helpful sharing....and all the other sharing too.
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<p class="MsoNormal">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<span style="font-family:"Apple Color Emoji"">🌠🌎🌍🌏</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Grace & Peace<o:p></o:p></p>
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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:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A">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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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A">I love Jim’s probing questions in response to Jack’s pronouncements about all the places “we failed.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A">And I appreciate Dick’s gentle defense, based on his experience in the trenches of each. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A">I also appreciate Jack’s subsequent expansive philosophical commentary that, as only Jack can, enlarged the context such that none of us really disagree.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A">But I do.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A">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."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A">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.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A">Grace and peace, Marilyn (and Joe)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A">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>is</b> here. The question is how fast that new paradigm becomes the operating paradigm. Telling the New Story is the new evangelism. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A">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>
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<a href="http://wedgeblade.net/" target="_blank">wedgeblade.net</a>. Is there a document somewhere that outlines these “why’s”?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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