[Oe List ...] Gene Marshall, Joyce Marshall and Alan Richard – Say “Goodbye”

[Sharon Fisher]

Thanks, Ken!

On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM Ken Fisher via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

> Realistic Living – Journal of Religion & Ethics / 1984 - 2024
>
> With Gene turning 93 on January 3rd, and Joyce turning 91 on February 19th,
>
> Gene Marshall, Joyce Marshall and Alan Richard – Say “Goodbye”
>
> [image: RL says Goodby.jpeg]
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> Dear RL,
>
> With the reading of the last issue of RL, I am deeply moved.
>
> On the map of the Other World - Land of Mystery, I am immersed in state
> #1, “It just cannot be that way.”
>
> With love, loyalty, and admiration, Ken
>
>
>
>
> To the O:E Listserv:
>
> From Issue #82, the final issue, Gene writes about meeting JWM in ’53 and
> getting involved with the Christian Faith and Life Community. In ’62, after
> Army Chaplaincy, he, Ruth and children 8, 6, and 4, joined the Order
> Ecumenical to be part of its public face, The Ecumenical Institute: Chicago.
>
> Realistic Living Theologizing is the cover article of this last issue.
>
> [image: preview.png]
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> WholeJournal82 <https://realisticliving.org/PDF/WholeJournal82.pdf>
> PDF Document · 2.1 MB <https://realisticliving.org/PDF/WholeJournal82.pdf>
> <https://realisticliving.org/PDF/WholeJournal82.pdf>
>
> Here, he shares his 70+ year journey with the five luminaries, the ‘hand
> of god’ that became the giants of the New Reformation, the theologizers of
> the NEW, New Testament.
>
> Thumb – Søren Kierkegaard, moving European philosophy and Lutheranism into
> existentialism.
>
> Finger #1 – Rudolf Bultmann, pointing to each word and metaphor in the New
> Testament existentially. Experiencing our limits as luminescent.
>
> Finger #2  – Paul Tillich, restoring a non-moralistic, non-dogmatic,
> existential sharing of the experience of sin & grace, estrangement (SK’s
> despair) and healing.
>
> Finger #3 – Dietrich Bonhoeffer, gifting us with the communion of saints
> as “life together"; and the Holy Spirit as second-by-second living and
> creatively responding to the tension of indescribable obligation & freedom.
>
> Finger #4 – H. Richard Niebuhr, illuminating the inherited visible church
> and the phenomena of ‘those who care’, the invisible church.
>
>
> Incorporated in 1984, the Realistic Living Journal has been a wonderful
> source of Joyce Marshall’s book and movie reviews. She has been a strong
> proponent of Eco-Theater.
>
> Over the past 15 years, resident scholar Alan Richard Ph.D. has been
> responsible for all aspects of RL.
>
> Built on the work of the five luminaries, Gene has published 10 books -
> the context of which now includes feminism, ecology and climate change,
> (Gene invented the word, 'eco-democracy') electoral politics, the enigma of
> consciousness, and Christian life and practices. His latest is “Approximate
> Knowing – The End of our Dogmatic View of Religion.
>
> His commentary on Mark is a profound journey into original Christian
> consciousness.
>
> The Creator of Christianity - Progressive Christianity & Realistic Living
> <https://realisticliving.org/blog/mark-commentary/>
> realisticliving.org <https://realisticliving.org/blog/mark-commentary/>
> <https://realisticliving.org/blog/mark-commentary/>
> <https://realisticliving.org/blog/mark-commentary/>
>
>
> Believe me or not, I also found excitement in the July ’24, issue #81. May
> Gene’s genius never end.
>
> [image: Cosmogenesis.jpeg]
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> [image: preview.png]
>
> WholeJournal81 <https://www.realisticliving.org/PDF/WholeJournal81.pdf>
> PDF Document · 2.7 MB
> <https://www.realisticliving.org/PDF/WholeJournal81.pdf>
> <https://www.realisticliving.org/PDF/WholeJournal81.pdf>
>
> Gene maps “All that is.” In the upper left, using the latest descriptors,
> he gives words to The Inanimate, the stuff through which all being is
> expressed. Happy to find ourselves in The Animate, with Survival and
> Sensuality in Layers of Aliveness.
>
> [image: Triangle of Cosmo.jpeg]
>
> In ’74-’75, I spent six months with Gene in The Academy.
>
> In August of 2011 and 2012, I attended RL’s Leadership Training and
> Symposium event.
>
>
>
> Forever inspired, Ken
>
>
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