[Oe List ...] David Marshall's IRON BOY Launches Today

[Herman Greene]

I'm glad I caught this thread. Would love to read this book. When in
despair in the Order, I would say to myself we could care for the world but
we couldn't care for ourselves. I can't imagine what it would have been
like to grow up in the Order.

And on the other side most of my leadership and organizational skills I owe
to the order and I learned that paradoxical spirituality and the will and
belief that we could do anything. I'm still on the march.

Herman

On Tue, Jul 22, 2025, 10:38 PM David Marshall via OE <
oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

> Elsa Batica,
>
> Thank you so much for your kind words and heartfelt Amazon review. I had
> an opportunity to visit the Azpetia HDP in the 1980s when my mom and sister
> Teresa lived in Lima. Learned recently that Pope Leo worked close to there
> when he was sent to Peru in that same decade. I also spent time at the
> Jamaica and Berlin HDPs.
>
> Other former Order Adults - If you read “Iron Boy” and have similar
> reactions, I would welcome your Amazon reviews as well. This helps a lot
> with my low-budget marketing to spread the word and help more families. If
> you do, please don’t mention that you know me, because Amazon sometimes
> disqualifies such reviews as bias.
>
> Much appreciation, 🙏
>
> David
>
> Sent from my iPhone
> David Marshall
> www.marshallbooks.net
>
>
> On Jul 22, 2025, at 4:52 PM, Elsa Batica via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> wrote:
>
> 
> I thought I'd share with you what I posted on Amazon. Thank you so much
> for writing and sharing your memoir.
>
> I read your book "Iron Boy" and I could hardly put it down. I reread it
> again for good measure on our recent trip. It is very engaging, evocative,
> and thought-provoking. It is a powerful memoir that explores the resilience
> of the human spirit amidst good intentions and reality. I resonated well
> with your sentiment, "I hated the Order for breaking up our family, but
> sometimes I loved it just the same." We were one of those families
> separated from our 13-month-old son and I could not reconcile how an Order
> of Family would separate families even for a young baby at that! Like you,
> I also love our work in community development, especially our time in the
> Azpitia Human Development Project. The book is emotionally engaging,
> particularly in its portrayal of the complex relationship between The
> Order, its members, and the families.
>
>
> Elsa Batica St Paul, MN
>
>
> On Sunday, June 15, 2025 at 03:01:50 AM CDT, David Marshall via OE <
> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>
>
> Dear Former Order Colleagues & Friends,
>
> Sunday “House Church” Blastoff! (Father’s Day - appropriate launch day
> since Order fathers loom large in this book)
>
> IRON BOY is officially for sale today on Amazon as both a paperback and
> e-book.
>
> The Iron Man statue is still alive and well in Fifth City sixty years
> later. In 2021, I visited Chicago with my wife, daughter, son, and their
> partners, and we all went to visit Fifth City and the Iron Man—they for the
> first time. Attached are some photos, of me in front of the Iron Man with
> the Program Center in the background where I took part of the Academy, the
> still-running “Iron Man Can” Fifth City Preschool, and my old elementary
> school, now renamed Leif Ericson Scholastic Academy.
>
> Also a vintage wintertime Iron Man statue photo that I used for the front
> cover of IRON BOY.
>
> And finally a little artifact from that era I just received. I visited my
> 93-year old dad Gene and 91-year-old step-mom Joyce in Texas recently, and
> they gave me this seven-inch-tall metal Iron Man statute that they had
> picked up along the way from the Wichita Religious House. Did all the
> Religious Houses have one?
>
> When I raise up my hands like the Iron Man, I think of these words from
> the Order song, “Free, free, free to decide, what this world is going to
> be.” We've still got a lot of work to do!
>
> Much appreciation for putting up with my 10-week House Church countdown to
> IRON BOY’s debut. If you read it, or share it with others, please let me
> know the impact. You can obtain both the paperback and e-book now on
> Amazon, and through other bookstores soon.
>
> https://www.amazon.com/IRON-BOY-Searching-Freedom-Religious/dp/B0FCMMVHDC
>
> Grace & Peace,
>
> David Marshall, www.marshallbooks.net
>
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