<font color='black' size='4' face='Times New Roman, Times, serif'>JWM was great at being both a cognitive and affective giant, and we all followed in his steps. The memory of Brian and our other colleagues allow us to appropriate both the archival needs of what remains of the Order, and its relational reality exhibited in the OE list.
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<div>I stopped teaching Sept. 30 because I am physiologically challenged but had enough finger power to take the four terms of our RS1 and gave it a whirl. Ben Ball of Houston appreciated the gesture.</div>
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<div>Some got a copy of an earlier version and the final one will hit the Marianas Variety editor on Thursday, October 20. Here's the current edited version, if Tim has a way of letting the membership get a read:</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b>For October 24 to 27 in
the Marianas Variety<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b>(24) G-O-D<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Here are four words used frequently and extensively in many
circles: <b>God, Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit,</b>
and <b>Church</b>. My take is confessional more than
catechistical, conciliatory more than polemical, the testimony of one deeply
rooted in the Christian tradition, still evangelical though inactive in organized
Christianity. I go beyond the current discourse that is stuck in the medieval
skyward looking of “the Santa Claus in the sky that sits to determine the fate
and destiny of humankind,” an image that tickled one of my students but
nonetheless current in Christian discourse.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Let us get first to the etymology of the word “god” that
English translators use to name YAHWEH (the Way Life Is), <i>Adonai, Elohim,</i> and<i> Messiah</i>
in the Judeo-Christian Bible, <i>Christos</i>
for the Messiah in the Septuagint version.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">“God” derives from <i>“good”</i>
in English, <i>“gott”</i> in German, a
translation of the Anglicized <i>“Jehovah” </i>of
Yahweh<i>, </i>reaching out to the <i>Zeus-Deux</i> of the Greco-Roman realm, the
Sanskrit <i>dyauḥ, </i>and Zhongguo’s Mandate of Heaven. The word means “reality”, the only real and
true condition that one can live before, as everything else is a mirage and an
illusion, a heritage from the desert, witnessed by the Torah and commented
extensively to this day.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">As one of the 20<sup>th</sup> century theologians clarified,
“god” is a devotional term; it is at once a “what, when, where, who, and why”
dynamic not the limited designation of “who” in current usage. As Episcopal Bishop Spong observes, “God” is
often referred to as a being in outer space orchestrating our daily existence
on Earth, and we can influence that power with prayer. That is not his Christianity. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Humans in current Church discourse are designated as
children of God, and those who receive that reality in the manner of Jesus
Christ, called to be his disciples, are the chosen ones in the world. It is the self-understanding of chosen-ness
that set the Jews apart.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">God, and in the world of scientific cause-and-effect, refers
to the religiously recognized power that creates and innovates the evolution of
humans and the universe. Just think of
14.3 billion years where the solar system includes a planet with a biosphere
that waters molten lava at its core, and a human history that is, at best,
40,000 years. “God” in its stumbling
“belief” system is huge beyond Einstein’s imagination, which is only 10% of
human brain cells, and our insignificance infinitesimal, but a dear colleague
insists on praying for open space in the parking lot before she goes shopping,
assured of the efficacy of her prayerful piety.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">It was an unknown Gabriel Vahanian who wrote a book in 1961
on the <i>Death of God</i>, which raised the
question on whether the word was still appropriate to designate the call to
take life in its raw reality and celebrate it, when it has become personalized
as the old man in the sky. Time magazine
boldly asked in a 1966 issue the question, <i>Is
God Dead? </i>Pascal and Hegel already
raised the same question that was a heritage of the Enlightenment against the
stuffy medieval theology of Aquinas and Luther.
Nietzsche popularized the phrase and Christendom went on the defensive.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Time magazine got Paul Van Buren, William Hamilton, John
Robinson, Thomas Altizer, John Caputo, and the rabbi Richard Rubenstein into a
serious conversation that got labeled as a movement. Van Buren went ahead to write a scholarly
search for the <i>Secular Meaning of the
Gospel </i>but<i> </i>preferred not to be
identified as part of the group. The movement
name got stuck, nonetheless, and the question of the non-existence of God
remained relevant.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">The fact is, the skyward looking of religious metaphors had
long ago relinquished its hold when we started sending rockets up
stratosphere. The human imagination got
a great image in the earthrise photo of 1968 when Apollo 8 mesmerized the world
with a lunarscape view of the Earth. It
ushered a turn in human consciousness.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">The skyward view got turned around towards the earth, and
suddenly, the monastic practices of meditation, contemplation and prayer took
special significance over the more externally demonstrated virtues of poverty,
chastity and obedience. The external dictates
of deity took a back seat in the shift on practices of deciding to be human.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">“Lord and Master” as metaphor revealed the meaning of divinity
to be nothing but a leftover from medieval liege-hood, when one was “saved”
from the infidels like the Moors of Spain, or got cleansed by the sword of the
Crusaders who wrestled Jerusalem from the unfaithful. The social stratification of the empire lent
itself to the language of “lord and master” but when it entered the religious
lexicon, the metaphor got stuck, still used by catechists today.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">“Nietzsche is dead; God lives forever” is a slogan to revive
piety of a heavenly creator. It works among
schizophrenics that separate their belief system from daily life. But when Christian theologians like Vahanian
take the Nietzsche phrase to the sanctuary, a new chosen-ness has begun.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b>(25) Yoshua<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">I learned in the anthology of faith that the designation
“Christ” is a role, not the last name of Jesus of Nazareth, as commonly
understood. Having spent time on the
Westside of Chicago, that phrase itself is a polite expletive to indicate
dismay, in the same way as “God Damn” does.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Before devotion on Jesus got formed, written up in the four
gospels, and elevated into Kristo Rei in Gualo Rai of Roman Catholic
ecclesiology, Jesus was but a barefoot boy in the foothills of Galilee whose
exemplary life earned him a following.
Their metaphor rooted in the mindset of the times followed the
chosen-ness of the Jews, but with a Christological twist. Being a disciple meant going to “do
likewise”.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">We have the Christian canon that chose the accounts of
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John as authoritative (sufficient for faith and
morals), each written for a particular audience. Matthew convinced the Jewish
synagogue that Jesus was the expected King of Israel of the line of David. Mark wrote a brief write-up for the practical
and no-nonsense Romans who were sufficient with the title Son of Man. Luke addressed the gentiles, particularly
those of the Greco-Roman world that longed for the Son of God to descend from
the lofty heights of Mt. Olympus to dwell “with us”. John, the last in the series, took the
Mediterranean mysterious creative force, infinite but dynamic sustainer of
life, the <i>LOGOS, </i>and identified the
Nazarene carpenter as the One.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Letter-writing Paul gets into the picture, a former
prosecutor turned convert to the “redemptive-salvific” role of Jesus to turn
back those who missed the mark (<i>hamartia</i>)<i>, </i>a “sin” from realistic living so that
they may return to their chosen authenticity rather than live in illusions, the
later moralized as the original depravity of humans. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">From Paul and the Gospel accounts, Jesus was not popular
playing this role, thus, crucified. In
fact, as revealed on the scene of upsetting the tables set outside the temple
of Jerusalem, he was perceived to disrupt more than console. Here lies the enduring image that later made
Jesus as “lord and savior” in medieval metaphor where royals donned shield and
sword to “save” the unfortunate, mostly those in the lower rung of
society. The image was not to affirm
heavenly divinity as to assert the reality of our common humanity we refuse to
live.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">The cruciform lifestyle spawned a religion that led not into
saving one’s life but into spending it.
Jesus-the-Christ role is sheer expenditure, and the practices it
spawned, especially meditation, contemplation, and prayer, had the latter
addressing the stance of confession (refusing to live the way life is),
gratitude (nevertheless, TY for reality’s mono-tenacity), petition (for
strength not to keep running away from reality into illusions), and
intercession (intentionally living one’s life expending it on behalf of
others).<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">The skyward looking propensity of most religious practices
before the earthrise consciousness of 1968 stayed with the image of old grandpa
in the sky, and with the formulation of the triune personhood of the godhead,
it did not take long for the Son to reign over all with the promise of living
in heaven unto eternity with disciples and followers. Jesus of Nazareth became a sovereign metaphor
to whom prayers were addressed, primarily as a <i>deux ex machina, </i>thank you, and Amen.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Earthrise consciousness pulled down the entrapment of the
adored Jesus-in-the-sky. The barefoot carpenter once again joined the ranks of
humanity and the table-up-setters in the colonnades of the social temples of
our Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Not too many would extricate the Jesus of faith from the
gold-plated crucifixes and the altars of adulation, for the sting of
discipleship is precisely that, a “sting” in the call to “go do likewise.” The cruciform lifestyle is not to be trifled
just so one gains widespread acceptability; it is a lifetime of total
engagement and absolute expenditure.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Just as the prayer of intercession is not wishful thinking
that “someone” will make things happen for us, it prays that one puts one’s
life on the line, and this is where fakery is called into question.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">In the desire to gain registration in the CNMI, there are
those who came with student visas and converted them to contract worker
status. Now the CW window is closed for
2017. One of the construction workers
in my dwelling bewails the fact that he has difficulty changing his student
visa to a CW category. He physically
looked my age, though I am sure he is younger, but coming to the CNMI, or staying
here on a student visa meant someone was paid to get him one. Neat-to.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Those who pray as if divinity can suddenly change the laws
of the CNMI to fit someone’s religious beliefs, is playing with heavenly fire,
if one will excuse the hyperbole.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Devotion to Jesus is not hoping for a miracle worker in
heaven. It is to follow one who affirmed
with his life that to pray without ceasing is to lay one’s whole body on the
line on behalf of others. That’s it.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b>(26) The Holy Spirit<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">In the ancient Ascription, the triune godhead is in the
“Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.” That is really ancient since “ghost” lost its
punch long time ago; “Spirit” has also lost any sense of substantive-ness as it
became simply the “essence” of something, maintained its meaning in the
fragrance of a perfume, or the aroma of the chef’s kitchen.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">I stay with “Holy Spirit” for now since this article is more
of an explication of how the four words are normally used in the lexicon of
Christendom. The word “holy” for
instance is related to the word “whole”, so wholeness speaks more of holiness
rather than the immaculately cassock <i>(sutana</i>)
Monsignor we honor with the address of “Your Holiness.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Wholesome spirit would do well as a translation of the ghost
save that the term has been adopted to refer to the <i>sojou </i>of Hangkuk or the <i>baijou
</i>of Chengdu. Japan calls it <i>wain</i> (adaptation of English word); I
prefer <i>osake </i>of the rice wine.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">The triune godhead, by its progeny, is terribly patriarchal,
although the goddess was a mainstay of divinity in ancient traditions, so
Catholic ecclesiology functionally created the office of the Holy Mother (<i>theotokos</i>, mother of God) as there is
one for the Holy Father, and the Holy Son.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">I grew up a Protestant, and my preacher Dad’s theological
master’s thesis was on Marian Dogma, written at a conservative Seminary, so it
labeled the doctrine as heresy. But in
my Mom’s tradition, the nuns were “married” to Jesus, and the priests are
beholden to Mother Mary, involving spirited relationships even in the cloister
itself.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">We are threading on apostacy, much as the metaphor of the
Body Ascension into Heaven of Jesus and the Virgin poses difficulty to modern
science. “Virgin” was evidently a
metaphorical bias not too difficult to explain, but literal bodily ascension in
the era of earthrise consciousness defies the laws of physics of our familiar.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">So Mary as the wholesome spirit will have to be a role model
more than just fingering the beads of the Rosary (adopted from the practice of
Middle Easter prayer beads), or be adored as the Virgin in a pedestal of our
adulation.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">“Women” has been a subject of our NMC class concern when in
learning how to listen and speak we heard a speech delivered by Hillary Clinton
at a U. N. Conference on Women in 1966 outside of Beijing at Hairou. In the speech, she averred what has since
become a cause slogan: Women’s Rights<b> is</b> Human Rights.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">That took us to the 30 articles on Human Rights adopted by
the UN and before we knew it, we had members of the class to talk on how, in
their view, do women fare in China, South Korea, Japan, Palau and the United
States.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Are we straying too far from the triune godhead, and the
image of the Holy Spirit as embodied in the lifestyle of Jesus’ mother Mary?<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Today, we are feted by various feminine styles outside the
pulchritude of Hollywood’s MM of the sewer wind blown skirt. Indira Gandhi of India led her country and
continue the Nehru family’s political presence.
We had Golda Meier of Israel leading her kibbutz into the Israel that
Europe begrudged to support. Angela
Merkel of Germany just announced her country’s ban on the manufacture of gas
powered car engines as we realize how much of our oil consumption contributes
to climate change.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Meg Thatcher was England’s PM who stuck to the Empire’s
remaining far-flung islands of the Falklands over neighboring Argentine’s
claim. Park Geun-Hye of Korea steers her
country’s Hyundai-Samsung fame. Mother
Teresa of Calcutta had just been sainted by Rome’s blessings.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">The CNMI had Rita Inos and Rita Sablan at Education; both
kept the CNMI aligned to the US system.
Born in Pea Eye but taking Uncle Sam’s blue book while Ferdie and Imelda
filled Malacañang closets with Marikina shoes, I was impressed by
yellow-frocked Cory Aquino’s transition from Martial Law to irreverent
democracy of Senor Felipe’s former Spanish colony.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">We note the likes of Norway’s Brundtland, China’s
Soong Ching-Ling, Argentina’s Peron, Pakistan’s Benazir, Ireland’s Mary
Robinson and Nicaragua’s Violetta Barrios de Chamorro. Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar smile’s her
incarceration, while Anne Frank’s diary reveals a little girl’s take on the
Nazi occupation. Billie Jean King at
Tennis, the tragic Princess of Wales Diana, Oprah Winfrey, Madonna, Amelia
Earhart, Helen Clark, Mireya Elisa Moscoso de Arias, J. K. Rowling, Katharine
and Audrey Hepburn, Queen Elizabeth II, and Rosa Parks exuded women’s power.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none">The (w)holiness of Mother Mary is an affirmation of
the Chinese saying popularized by Mao Zedong: women hold half of the sky <i>(fùnǚ
néng dǐng bànbiāntiān),</i><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;
color:#747474"> </span></i>and perhaps, if we have God the Father, God the Son,
the Mother of God, how far are we from the Daughter of God?<span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;
color:#747474"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">I didn’t mean to go further than the triune designations of <i>ecclesia</i> but the spirited style pointing
to a Holy Spirit bubbles with life, energy, and engagement. The wholeness shown by the women in our
discourse lies precisely in that vein.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b>(27) Church<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">From the German <i>kirche
</i>(sovereign’s house) Church was sufficient for our religious purposes,
richly endowed by the varied and diverse traditions “Christianity” spawned
through the ages. <i>Ecclesia </i>was the popular and secular assembly of Greek’s democracy
but adopted and translated as “the household of God” in Christendom.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Its use refers to the assembly of g-o-d’s people who do not
waver to live realistically, in the manner of expenditure as demonstrated by
Jesus, and the energy of the Holy Spirit where “motherly” engagement knows no
end.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">God-Jesus-Holy Spirit is the triune formulation, and the
gathered assembly of those who profess this triune persona of divinity is the
assembly we now call “Church”. Two views
prevail, the Jewish <i>Yahwishtic </i>grounding
that came to be Christian theology, and the Jesus salvific and redemptive role,
exemplified by the Crusades who “redeemed” lost souls, and exhibited devotion
to the personhood of Jesus the Christ as the only and final savior of the
world.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">In current usage, it is the assembly of those who still hang
on to the feudal metaphors that characterized our series so far. They continue the medieval metaphors of
“God-Jesus Christ-Holy Spirit”.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Among the Protestants of Saipan, the Church spirit in feudal
metaphors at its best is exemplified in the gathering around the wall-less
structure of the Community Church related to the General Baptist Association by
Beach Road between the Susupe Beach Park and the Saipan Community School. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Our Lady of Mercy at Mount Carmel not far from the old Sugar
Dock wharf centers the Roman Catholic tradition though other parish churches
that dot the whole island landscape follow similar religious Masses at their
altars.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Many other confessional congregations (the multifarious
Baptists, Assemblies, and Witnesses) and structured denominations (the
Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal) are scattered around the island, here
churches after WWII before they established their parochial schools, but the
Chapel without walls by Beach Road is by design and intent a faithful
Micronesian gathering place of celebration and worship.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">The <i>ekklesia </i>in
our narrative is a complex tradition from the Jewish stubborn adherence to
fealty in the Way Life Is, to the evangelistic Jesus the Christ marriage with
the Greek notion of “essence” and “identity”.
With the Renaissance return to the “originals” and the Enlightenment
promotion of “reason”, we added the Wesleyan corrective of the affective
practice that personalized deity in G-O-D, and divinity turned human in Jesus,
in my case, especially after the earthrise consciousness.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">The complexity and diversity of the household has been both
the celebrated and bewailed character of the Christian faith of our time. It is its feudal metaphors that still reign
within the congregations and community for which this earnest Christian now
take exception, not as a denial of what had gone before but as an authentic
affirmation of what has always been the case, that the language of divinity has
been about “mankind created in God’s image” turned around into interactive role
of redeeming humanity from itself.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">The Church at the corner of Main and Elm is presently an
insistence on the household of God rather than the gathering of humankind. Humankind gets its reality from our secular
understanding that at conception for everyone, one sperm out of 200 million makes
it to fertilize an egg that chooses out of the first arrivals the sperm that
merge with it, to then create in nine months a complex digestive, respiratory,
circulatory, excretory, endocrine, skeletal, and muscular system whose
complexity and the response of wonder knows no bounds. Before one is born, one is already a bonafide
“winner and free”, and a creative one to boot.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">The Church of the earthrise consciousness remains a
dispersed group but the <i>ecumenical </i>impetus
that has always characterized Christendom since 5<sup>th</sup> century Vincent
of Lérins insisted that there is a corpus of Christianity <span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">“believed everywhere, always, and by all”
<i>(quod ubique, quod semper, quod ab
omnibus creditum est), </i>one Church universal. True or not is not a cognitive matter, but it
is true as a fundamental life stance of faith that guides anyone when waking up
in the morning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">In this
understanding, <i>ecclesia </i>is more than
just the Church steeple at the corner of Main and Elm streets. It is, from my perspective, the “theistic”
grounding of the Jewish tradition, and the “salvific-redemptive” thrust of the
Jesus the Christ faith, in the age of the earthrise duly transformed. The “spirit” is a human one and the theistic
language of the medieval period is convenient but it is still skyward-focused
when the events since 1968 of the lunar “earthrise” has born and bred a new
kind of earthbound commitment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">“How” is
fumbling guess work, though there are like minds in the shadows, but as I note
in my email byline, “earthrise is a gift; earthbound is a commitment.” Blimey, I am back at being the invisible
Church! Welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
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