[Oe List ...] Salmon: The salvation we find in words

[William Salmon via OE]

 Terry et al:
    The "Trans-establishment." That is a word I haven't used in some time, and it is a word that reawakened me to living the authentic life. It did the first time I heard it (Global Academy?), and subsequently, every time I used it to illuminate the hope-less-ness of both the "Establishment" and the Dis-Establishment;" never sell your soul to either one. 
    The uniqueness is that I can sit here 50 years post-academy and remember its usefulness. 
    Yes, the Journey to the East continues; while wandering, I meet the damdest array of people who exist in community.
    "I once was lost but now am found."
   Inner peace, 
    Bill 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Terry Bergdall via OE 
  To: Order Ecumenical Community ; Colleague Dialogue 
  Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 3:18 PM
  Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Is your regular life on the right side of social justice or just your little "side project"


  Steve, 



  Your question prompted by the Anand Giridhara video has reached me as I am reading a much stronger exploration of the same theme, especially for nonprofit organizations. It is a book recommended to me by Seva Gandhi, "The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex." 



  I find these questions particularly pertinent in the aftermath of having just written an orientation handbook about the legacy and values of ICA. On the surface, it highlights concerns that ICA has long expressed in its image of the "trans-establishement." That clarity, however, gives no one a free pass. Both the video and the book raise questions that can only be answered in a confessional examination of one's actions and commitments -- individually and institutionally. I appreciate your reminder about this.



  Terry



  On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 12:53 PM, steve har via OE ‪<oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:  



  Is your regular life on the right side of social justice or just your little "side project"



  Anand Giridharadas: The Thriving World, The Wilting World, & You

  At the Aspen Institute

  https://youtu.be/IP7HajXJD3s



  note the reference in the talk  to Ursula LaGuin's short philosophical

  fiction "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" was on the Institute

  shared reading list at the conference.

  See: tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas





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