[Oe List ...] OE Digest, Vol 4, Issue 29

[Mary Laura Jones]

The Memorial Service for Carol Pierce will be held on October 20 at 2:00pm
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Hahn will lead the service. Please plan to stay for refreshments and a
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Mary Laura Jones
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>>    1. Re: My report on Rio+20 (Charles Hahn)
>>    2. The Three Moods in Christian Worship (R Williams)
>>    3. [Dialogue] The Three Moods in Christian Worship (George Holcombe)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 20:08:44 -0500
>> From: Charles Hahn <cfhahn30 at gmail.com>
>> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] My report on Rio+20
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>> Herman, I have been out of town, and just now reading your Rio+20 piece.
>> It is such a hopeful piece.  Much work to do, but hope filled. Thanks so
>> much.
>> Charles Hahn
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Herman Greene <hfgreene at mindspring.com
>> >wrote:
>>
>> > ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **
>> >
>> > Here?s the report I wrote on **Rio**+20:****
>> >
>> > ** **
>> >
>> > ** **
>> >
>> > *NOTES FROM RIO+20: WHY IT DIDN?T FAIL*
>> >
>> > *By Herman F. Greene*
>> >
>> > I was in Rio from June 13-22 for the UN Conference on Sustainable
>> > Development (**Rio**+20) and events preceding it. The prevailing
>> > sentiment is that **Rio**+20 was a failure. Scott Simon of NPR described
>> > it as the biggest UN conference ever and perhaps one of its biggest
>> duds.
>> > *The New York Times *quoted a representative of CARE as saying it was
>> > ?nothing more than a political charade,? and a representative of
>> Greenpeace
>> > as declaring it ?a failure of epic proportions.? When the official
>> outcome
>> > document from **Rio**+20, titled ?The Future We Want,? is not rejected
>> > outright, tepid assessments are generally given such as ?it partially
>> > salvaged prior commitments, but offered little new.?****
>> >
>> > ** **
>> >
>> > Evaluating **Rio**+20 as a failure has consequences. For some, the
>> > ?failure? of **Rio**+20 underscores the weakness or the UN processes as
>> a
>> > whole. Because blame for the alleged failure has largely been placed on
>> > ?governments,? the faith of some in the ability of governmental and
>> > intergovernmental organizations to address major problems has fallen. In
>> > the ****United States****, where the event was seldom reported, summary
>> > reports of failure may lead some to say, ?I didn?t know about it and it
>> > wasn?t important anyway.?****
>> >
>> > ** **
>> >
>> > My view of the conference is, however, different. I had to educate
>> myself
>> > to understand the UN sustainable development process, of which
>> **Rio**+20
>> > is only the latest chapter in a 40-year long and continuing history. I
>> > began to engage directly in this process in October 2011 in order to
>> > promote formation of an International Ethics Panel on Ecological
>> > Civilization (IEPEC), a panel first proposed by Professor **Ryoichi
>> > Yamamoto** at a September 2011 conference in ****Tokyo****. Returning
>> > from that conference, I learned Rio+20 was the place to take this idea
>> as
>> > many NGOs and some governments were emphasizing the need for new ethical
>> > structures in UN governance in connection with one of Rio+20?s two major
>> > themes, ?Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development.?****
>> >
>> > ** **
>> >
>> > In the course of attending three preparatory events in **New York** and
>> > the final **Rio**+20 conference, I have learned the UN?s sustainable
>> > development process is not primarily about the environment. It is about
>> how
>> > the peoples of the world, as a whole, can improve their lives and the
>> forms
>> > of development that are most appropriate for achieving this. Environment
>> > comes in because it must: after all Earth is the living planet and
>> resource
>> > base on which humans depend both physically and culturally. Economics
>> > enters because our current understanding of social development is
>> dominated
>> > by it and by certain established conventions, such as GDP,
>> neo-liberalism,
>> > globalization, and industrialization, all of which were questioned in
>> the
>> > Rio+20 debates, especially in relation to the conference?s other major
>> > theme, ?The Green Economy in the Context of Poverty Eradication and
>> > Sustainable Development.****
>> >
>> > ** **
>> >
>> > I have learned that equity and security, in unfamiliar ways, are at the
>> > heart of every sustainable development debate. Small island states ask
>> if
>> > it is equitable that they should be flooded due to global warming and
>> > rising seas attributable to the actions of others. The President of
>> Ecuador
>> > raises the question how much should his country be paid to leave
>> > rainforests intact in order to produce oxygen for the world. The ?Green
>> > Economy,? is viewed by many in the Global South (the term commonly used
>> in
>> > place of the ?**Third World**?) as a further expansion of global
>> > capitalism, the commodification of nature and a threat to indigenous
>> > people. Security becomes a question for many of whether they will have
>> > enough food to eat in a world, soon to be populated by 9 billion people,
>> > facing erosion of land, desertification and land grabs by both foreign
>> > governments and corporations. Subsistence farmers wonder why they must
>> > enter the monetary economy to become ?sustainable? or ?be lifted out of
>> > poverty,? and why their occupation of land for centuries does not
>> > constitute ?title.?****
>> >
>> > ** **
>> >
>> > I have learned that civil society, largely composed of nonprofit
>> > organizations (also called nongovernmental organizations or NGOs) and
>> given
>> > quite limited official status, by holding to ideals of the future,
>> > commenting on intergovernmental negotiations and making their voices
>> heard,
>> > are collectively a major force in the UN sustainable development
>> process.
>> > Yet I have also learned that, now more than ever, government is the
>> > indispensable actor in bringing about the future we want.****
>> >
>> > ** **
>> >
>> > With this growing knowledge, I have come to understand **Rio**+20 as not
>> > being a failure. The language of outcome documents in UN conferences
>> such
>> > as **Rio**+20 are arrived at by consensus. Thus, the outcome document
>> of *
>> > *Rio**+20 reflected where there was and was not a global consensus on
>> > future commitments. The current financial crisis (and related national
>> and
>> > regional politics) hung like a shadow over the proceedings. While
>> progress
>> > on new commitments would have been preferable, the central issue in the
>> > proceedings became whether governments would preserve the basic
>> principles
>> > of sustainable development adopted at the First Earth Summit in Rio in
>> > 1992, principles such as social equity, gender equality, common but
>> > differentiated responsibilities (requiring greater responsibility for
>> > developed countries), human rights (including, heretofore unrecognized
>> > rights to clean, drinkable water, basic sanitation, food security, a
>> > minimum standard of living, and a social protection floor), the polluter
>> > pays, the precautionary principle and the right to development (the
>> right
>> > of all peoples to develop their own resources for their own needs,
>> > interests, and cultures). The reaffirmation of these principles became
>> the
>> > limited success of the governmental portion of **Rio**+20.****
>> >
>> > ** **
>> >
>> > The greater achievements came in the civil society portion. More than
>> > 30,000 civil society representatives participated in the official Rio+20
>> > conference and 100,000 more in the concurrent People?s ****Summit****
>> and
>> > protest marches. There were also large concurrent business and
>> professional
>> > gatherings in **Rio**, such as Business Action for Sustainable
>> > Development Business Day and the World Congress on Justice, Governance
>> and
>> > Law for Environmental Sustainability. Knowing of the limitations of the
>> > official outcome document, activists released 14 People?s Sustainability
>> > Treaties and a People?s Sustainability Manifesto. President Rousseff of
>> **
>> > Brazil** was justified in calling **Rio**+20 the most participatory
>> > conference in history and ?a global expression of democracy.?****
>> >
>> > ** **
>> >
>> > People who gathered in **Rio** knew the official results of the
>> > conference would be limited. They came nevertheless to network and to
>> set
>> > the stage for the next phase of the UN sustainable development process,
>> the
>> > shaping of the post 2015-development agenda in which the present
>> Millennium
>> > Development Goals will be integrated into broader and more ambitious
>> > sustainable development goals. Those from civil society left to form a
>> > global citizens? movement to take action now for sustainable development
>> > and to develop the political will for global policy change. **Rio**+20
>> > was not an end, rather it was a new beginning. ****
>> >
>> > ** **
>> >
>> > Herman****
>> >
>> > *_____________________________________________*****
>> >
>> > **Herman Greene******
>> >
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>> >
>> > Skype: hgreene-nc****
>> >
>> > hfgreene at mindspring.com ****
>> >
>> > ** **
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>> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 04:08:24 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: R Williams <rcwmbw at yahoo.com>
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>> Subject: [Oe List ...] The Three Moods in Christian Worship
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>> Colleagues,
>> ?
>> A couple of weeks ago we had a conversation on this listserv?about the
>> acts of Worship.? I remember distinctly that in the RS-1 short course on
>> worship we said there are 3 overarching?acts; Confession, Praise (or
>> Thanksgiving) and Dedication.? You may confirm this by reviewing the Daily
>> Office that we did every morning.
>> ?
>> My focus has been?more?on?what we said are the 3 "moods" associated with
>> those acts of worship: for the act of confession the mood is humility; for
>> thanksgiving, gratitude; and for dedication, compassion.? I've been
>> keeping?journal notes?on these?for several years.? I think they are key
>> to?our being?profoundly human.? I want to share some brief reflections and
>> invite you to share your thoughts.
>> ?
>> The opposite of humility is arrogance.? Tillich told us that "sin" is
>> less about immoral acts and more about the state of "separation" in which
>> we all?live.? I have concluded that confession in?humility is
>> not?self-depreciation?in light of our imperfection but
>> is?rather?acknowledgement that we, in our separated state, are incomplete.?
>> We deny our interdependence on the "other" in our quest for
>> self-sufficiency and self-determination, which are delusions.? When we own
>> up to our incompleteness (i.e. confess) in humility, this opens us, at the
>> very least,?to?learning (i.e. having?our hearts and minds changed,
>> metanoia), and?to?entering into new relationships and friendships and
>> partnering?with all creation.
>> ?
>> The opposite of gratitude is greed.? Old Testament scholar Walter
>> Brueggemann has suggested that in our culture we need to move from a
>> paradigm of scarcity?to one of abundance.? We may thus?come to acknowledge
>> that life is not a zero sum game, and that there is plenty for all as long
>> as no one has more than her, his or its?share.? Gratitude is acknowledgment
>> that we have all we need to live with dignity?and to respond to?our
>> calling, as long as we are willing to share rather than hoard it,?like the
>> magician's urn of water, the more it's poured out, the fuller it becomes.
>> ?
>> The opposite of compassion is?insensitivity to the?suffering of the
>> other, and gracelessness, the inability to be responsive to those who
>> suffer.??This,?of?course,?plays off H. Richard Niebuhr's understanding of
>> "church" as the "sensitive and responsive" part of society.? So to be
>> compassionate is?to be "sensitive and responsive," which leads to living?an
>> active?life?service.? I think of?compassion more as something we "do"
>> rather than something we "be."
>> ?
>> There is a sense in which all of these are inter-related to the extent
>> that you can't talk about or embody?any one of them without?the other two.?
>> Humility leads one to be both grateful and compassionate.? Gratitude has a
>> prerequisite for humility, and is ultimately expressed in compassion.?
>> Compassion is humility?and gratitude in action, i.e. the life of empathic
>> service.? We can see clearly how these three "moods" or "attitudes," as we
>> called them, are appropriate to the 3 acts of Christian worship as we
>> practiced it.? But because we understand that worship is a rehearsal of,
>> and is therefore transparent to, all of?life as encountered in the world,
>> we understand that there is nothing religious about humility, gratitude or
>> compassion, but that these qualities are?exhibited by?all who decide to?be
>> "profoundly human."
>> ?
>> Randy
>> ?
>>
>> "Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the
>> world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires."
>> -Martin Buber (adapted)
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>> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:22:04 -0500
>> From: George Holcombe <geowanda at earthlink.net>
>> To: Order Ecumenical Community <OE at wedgeblade.net>
>> Subject: [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] The Three Moods in Christian Worship
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>> Good one, Randy.  I appreciated reading that, and then I turned to Rohr's
>> daily and couldn't keep from recommended this one.  I associate it with the
>> Tillich paper.
>>
>> George Holcombe
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>> Hope appeareth, but it is not your Hope?you do not have anything to do
>> with it. It just appeareth. It comes as a stranger, as an alien?it just
>> appeareth! You do not even know why you hope. How in the world could you
>> hope when there is absolutely nothing to justify any hope?    ~Joseph W.
>> Mathews
>>
>>
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>> > Subject: Daily Meditation: The Art of Letting Go -- July 30, 2012
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>> > THE ART OF LETTING GO
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>> > It is good to remember that a part of you has always loved God. There
>> is a part of you that has always said yes. There is a part of you that is
>> Love itself, and that is what we must fall into. It is already there. Once
>> you move your identity to that level of deep inner contentment, you will
>> realize you are drawing upon a Life that is much larger than your own and
>> from a deeper abundance. Once you learn this, why would you ever again
>> settle for scarcity in your life? ?I?m not enough! This is not enough! I do
>> not have enough!? I am afraid this is the way culture trains you to think.
>> It is a kind of learned helplessness. The Gospel message is just the
>> opposite?inherent power.
>> >
>> > Thomas Merton said the way we have structured our lives, we spend our
>> whole life climbing up the ladder of supposed success, and when we get to
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>> there is nothing at the top. To get back to the place of inherent
>> abundance, you have to let go of all of the false agendas, unreal goals,
>> and passing self-images. It is all about letting go. The spiritual life is
>> more about unlearning than learning, because the deepest you already knows
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>> > Adapted from The Art of Letting Go (CD)
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