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 The Politics of Authenticity

No one registered the effect of the Community's dramatic mystique more sharply than did Ronnie Dugger, who was fascinated with Mathews's persona. "Joe Mathews, the inspired merlin, the mystifying poet of prayer to one's own privacy, genuine fraud, the leader of the Community," Dugger mused. "Could it be that Joe knew god but just wasn't introducing him around? Joe wouldn't exactly say, but he wouldn't with transfixing grace." Dugger's own abandonment of his inherited faith may have fostered the ambivalence he felt about Mathews's sincerity. It is remarkable that despite his own apostasy, Dugger still found in Mathews the intoxicating, elusive promise of hidden wisdom, the mystic implication of knowledge deeper than what we see routinely on the surface of life. This was the promise of the "really real," the sense of which anthropologist Clifford Geertz, echoing Tillich, asserts is the kernel of genuine religious experience.91Some found the intense group of staff and students gathered at the Community a little intimidating, even weird. "They knew it wasn't fundamentalism, but they weren't sure what it was, says Lingo.
page 79, Doug Rossinow, The Politics of Authenticity

 
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   On Monday, October 19, 2020, 12:31:55 PM PDT, McCabe, Diann A via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:  
 
 I enjoyed Sorkin’s film and appreciate the background on Cason. I see she was a UT student who demonstrated to integrate movie theatres in Austin. Some years ago our local Cinema Club brought this film about those demonstrations to our public library: https://peopleshistoryintexas.org/documentaries/standins/ The demonstrators planned their strategy at the Faith and Life Community. JWM is mentioned in the documentary. I spoke to the film maker after the showing. She had never met anyone connected to the Faith and Life Community. We corresponded for a time and I sent the film to someone with the archives in Chicago. —Diann McCabe

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On Oct 19, 2020, at 2:06 PM, James Wiegel via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:



 Old guys rule the internet!!!  Thanks, Ken!


Jim Wiegel

“We are all time travelers journeying into the future. But let us make that future a place we want to visit. “       Stephen Hawking


On Oct 19, 2020, at 9:51 AM, Ken Fisher <kenfisher1942 at gmail.com> wrote:





For the Archives:

Joe Mathews married Tom Hayden to Sandra Cason in 1961.
"The similarity between certain ideas at work in the Community and those expressed at Port Huron." 

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‘Casey’ Cason was a member of the Christian Faith and Life Community.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Hayden#Campus_activist
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https://books.google.ca/books?id=iZwqKBgpfR8C&pg=PA81&lpg=PA81&dq=Port+Huron+Statement+%26+Joe+Mathews&source=bl&ots=D20lZvW7xy&sig=ACfU3U15uGB3rhjBK9HbAGMH71K23yY_NQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJ4Ljii8HsAhWRPM0KHZxEB20Q6AEwBnoECAgQAg#v=onepage&q=Port%20Huron%20Statement%20%26%20Joe%20Mathews&f=false
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In 1964 in Ottawa, I was a fundraiser for SNCC - the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. It went to voter registration support in Mississippi.
>From ’66 to ’68, I was on the national executive of the SDS equivalent in Canada, the Student Union for Peace Action. In January of ’68, I attended the SDS conference in Chicago and visited 3444 West Congress Parkway.
In her bright coloured frock and apron, Joyce Townley took me on a tour. Her assignment was Property. She emptied the kitchen grease pit then took me to the basement where she used a hoist to get the garbage up to the street! I was sold.
Ken Fisher



On Oct 19, 2020, at 12:22 PM, James Wiegel via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
We watched this Netflix movie about Chicago in 1968.  Was good.  Tom Hayden was one of the defendants — wasn’t he somewhat connected to the Christian Faith and Life Community in Austin?  Also mention of the “Port Huron Statement” of the SDS — did Joe or someone help with writing that?  Also several mentions of the “Cultural Revolution”. Police and protestor scenes were chilling ...  Watched with daughter, son in law and grand daughter.  I vaguely recall an evening going to Lincoln Park and sitting in on something about guerilla theater.

Jim Wiegel

“We are all time travelers journeying into the future. But let us make that future a place we want to visit. “       Stephen Hawking
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