[Oe List ...] OE Digest, Vol 109, Issue 23

[Lawrence Philbrook]

> Jean I think it was 1964. I can easily imagine your teaching style challenging everyone it still does  :-)

I remember the course happening in Tempe Ariz but I was not yet 10 so a little hazy.  I didn’t get to take my first RS1  until we were in Chicago later in 64 or 65.  Dad taught it to me in our apartment and used a TV show called Laredo instead of Requiem.

I remember my first pedagogy in the academy and someone telling me to stop trying to teach like Phil, I think it was Bob Shropshire but I had a lot of pedagogy sessions over the years with a lot of teachers including Baliley’s, Troxel, even one session in DC with Frank Hilliard.

With love and respect,
Larry


>> On Apr 27, 2021, at 8:20 PM, Jean Watts <jeankwatts at icloud.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks Jim for videos of Slicker.  My response is way too long but of course there had to be discussions of what should remain or replace any part of the final RS-I course.  
>> 
>> Can’t remember actually how or when that which I think was called religious studies became a 44 hour course call RS-I. I was only 21 at the time! It was because I first experienced it in pieces and not necessarily in the sequential order of the final course.  I remember how excited Jack was with all of it and how he tried (in my opinion) to copy the way JWM was doing it at SMU. I loved the participatory way we studied the stories or papers but not particularly JWM’s style of doing it.  I had studied the bible and the stories of the bible and knew all the parables but it was so much more enjoyable to listen to the personal stories the teachers shared and asked questions so that everyone shared theirs.  Then in 1994 (I think JWM (with I think Joe Slicker and maybe Joe Pierce or David McClesky) came to New Orleans to teach the 44 hour RSI course that Jack and I had recruited all our family and friends to attend.  I was very disappointed!  They had left out quite a lot of material that I had really resonated with especially regarding what GOD, Jesus, the CHRIST, and Holy Spirit were or meant.  What seemed to me at the time to be missing was the embracing nature of the Way Life Is regardless of my response to it at the time.  And Jesus as the “way, truth, and Life, seemed to be missing or not obviously connected for me. But I liked the All is Good, I am Received, Past is Approved, and the Future is Open.  I felt the course completely left out the essence of the Holy Spirit part of the Trinity.  And the word “care” did not hold within it the sacred or holy or deeper/ultimate meaning of the word “love” for me because it left out the unconditional part of it.  It also seemed to leave out " the Way Life Is" always ultimately is of benefit to human beings, whether of course in the moment, situation, or experience one thinks or feels that it is experiencing something that is not to his or her benefit.
>> 
>> But after that very first RS-I event a cadre was formed that met weekly I think.  The Holcombs, Priest Alerdine, Carlos Zervigon and first wife, the Joe and Joy Thomas, my Mother, Pat Tueke before she married Dan) the Philbrooks,were whom some of you may remember and others who I can’t remember their names now were apart of it. And it was fun to meet and talk about how the Church might be more of a help to those suffering innocently, and be instruments of service to their parishes and ultimately to the whole world.
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>> Jack and I moved to Chicago when their was then room for us to join the original group in Chicago in 1966.  When I got my first assignment to attend Pegagogy I had told Jack who told JWM I would not be coming because I did not want to “teach” it. So JWM came to our apt to escort me at the time it was suppose to start to the class which he was teaching.  So I went! And I was terrible at carrying out my assigned parts of the course.  My stories were so “different” than those the others used etc. etc. etc. and I felt uncomfortable and unable to  “copy the masculine pedagogy style” that I saw the other women willing and able to do at the time. I remember how skillfully encouraging and lovingly JWM responded to my performances as a pedagogue, but many of the others were quite critical. Someone told me later how I had completely changed to “right order” of the 4 by 4 lecture in the manual.  I had gone down each column rather than across it.  No wonder my “stories were so  different!
>> Jean 
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