<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br></div>I was happy to cast my Hillary vote last week.  Interesting to hear this fuller history -- I had heard parts of it -- the meeting of MLK, Jr. on Chicago's south side, etc.  She has always operated from a context larger than herself.  Glad to hear she had 'You are Accepted' among her resources.  That has helped all of us on the journey!<div><br><div><br></div><div>Joyce Bonafield-Pierce</div><div>Minnesota</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 12:22 PM, W. J. via OE <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:24px"><div id="m_854125898908039668yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477925635614_30359">Somehow this sounds VERY familiar!</div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:15px;font-family:CNN,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,Utkal,sans-serif;line-height:1.66667;color:rgb(38,38,38);background-color:rgb(254,254,254)" id="m_854125898908039668yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477925635614_30389"><font id="m_854125898908039668yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477925635614_30534" size="5">"In 1961, when Clinton was a teenager, a youth pastor came blazing into Park Ridge behind the wheel of a red Chevy convertible. The Rev. Don Jones would inspire Clinton to see the world as her parish.</font></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:15px;font-family:CNN,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,Utkal,sans-serif;line-height:1.66667;color:rgb(38,38,38);background-color:rgb(254,254,254)" dir="ltr" id="m_854125898908039668yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477925635614_30390"><font id="m_854125898908039668yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477925635614_30536" size="5">Fresh from seminary after a stint in the Navy, Jones gathered the sheltered Methodist youth of Park Ridge and gave them crash courses in the "University of Life." He read them poems by e.e. cummings, introduced them to Christian intellectuals such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Paul Tillich, and asked them to interpret modernist paintings such as Picasso's 'Guernica'."</font></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:15px;line-height:1.66667;color:rgb(38,38,38);background-color:rgb(254,254,254)" dir="ltr" id="m_854125898908039668yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477925635614_30390"><font size="5" id="m_854125898908039668yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477925635614_30648">Much later Tillich's sermon 'You Are Accepted' got Hillary through the Monica crisis.</font></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:15px;line-height:1.66667;color:rgb(38,38,38);background-color:rgb(254,254,254)" dir="ltr" id="m_854125898908039668yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477925635614_30390"><font size="5" id="m_854125898908039668yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477925635614_30767">Joe Thomas tells about meeting Hillary in Baton Rouge</font><span style="font-size:x-large;line-height:40.0001px" id="m_854125898908039668yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477925635614_30768"> </span><span style="font-size:x-large;line-height:40.0001px" id="m_854125898908039668yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477925635614_30769">some years ago </span><span style="font-size:x-large;line-height:1.66667" id="m_854125898908039668yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477925635614_30770">and discussing her experience at The Ecumenical Institute.</span></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:15px;line-height:1.66667;color:rgb(38,38,38);background-color:rgb(254,254,254)" dir="ltr" id="m_854125898908039668yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477925635614_30390"><font size="5">So GO VOTE already!</font></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:15px;line-height:1.66667;color:rgb(38,38,38);background-color:rgb(254,254,254)" dir="ltr" id="m_854125898908039668yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477925635614_30390"><font size="5" id="m_854125898908039668yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477925635614_30652">Marshall</font></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:15px;background-color:rgb(254,254,254)" dir="ltr" id="m_854125898908039668yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477925635614_30390"><font color="#262626" face="CNN, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif" id="m_854125898908039668yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477925635614_30430"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:20px" id="m_854125898908039668yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477925635614_30431"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/30/politics/clinton-faith-private/index.html" class="m_854125898908039668enhancr2_7c096283-4587-1efd-5109-71adcd371e4e" id="m_854125898908039668yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477925635614_30434" target="_blank">The public and private faith of Hillary Clinton</a></span></font><br></div><div id="m_854125898908039668yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477925635614_30645"><br></div><div id="m_854125898908039668enhancr2_7c096283-4587-1efd-5109-71adcd371e4e" class="m_854125898908039668yahoo-link-enhancr-card m_854125898908039668ymail-preserve-class m_854125898908039668y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