<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">Dear Colleagues,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">Here's the news from Realistic Living.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">Gene turned 81 on January 3rd, and is 'back', after overcoming 'a pause' occasioned by recent surgery. Joyce will be 79 on February 19. They founded Realistic Living in 1984, regularly publishing a journal and many books since that time. I much admire there life-time commitments to social activism and recreating Christian practice and theology for the 21st Century.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">Here in our little village of Sharbot Lake Ontario, Pat and I use Joyce's Ignatian-like solitary on a near daily basis, and weekly we use the format of RL's Christian Resurgence Circle - dance, study and prayer. We are planning our third trip to Bonham for June.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">Recently, he wrote (with the significant input of four others) <i style="font-weight: bold; ">The Road From Empire to Eco-Democracy.</i> It is being well reviewed and used as a study book in a variety of contexts.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">He has just competed a protean work, </font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">The Enigma of Consciousness - </font></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">A Philosophy of Profound Humanness and Religion.</font></i></b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></i></b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">Together, these books represent a comprehensive and futuric tour of a new social vehicle and a new religious mode.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">For me, they provide contemporary screens for discerning where it is that the human community is having, or can have, breakthroughs in creating a new world. As well, they provide an enthralling invitation to deepen ones personal spirit practices and social engagements.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><br></font></div></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><b>The Road</b></font></div> can be ordered from Amazon or from:</div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">Gene Marshall 3578 N. State Highway 78 Bonham TX 75418</font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">$21 - postage free</font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">Gene Marshall <<a href="mailto:jgmarshall@cableone.net">jgmarshall@cableone.net</a>></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><br></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><b>Enigma </b></font></div> can be downloaded free from <a href="http://www.RealisticLiving.org/PDF/Enigma/">http://www.RealisticLiving.org/PDF/Enigma/</a></div></blockquote><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">His latest book is entitled </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">The Love of History and the Future of Christianity - </font></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b style="font-style: italic; ">A Manifesto for a Post-Christendom Christianity.</b><i> </i>Every human community is 'awe-struck'. What is unique and worth forwarding into the future </font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; ">about Christianity</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; ">? We look forward to its completion.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">Realistic Living's resources can be found at </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><br></font></div></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><a href="http://www.realisticliving.org/">http://www.realisticliving.org/</a></font></div></div></blockquote><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">Staff member Alan Richard, maintains RL's highly imaginative and spiritually informative Facebook page at </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><br></font></div></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Realistic-Living/199360680077780">http://www.facebook.com/pages/Realistic-Living/199360680077780</a></font></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><br></font></div></blockquote>
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