<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">One of my hopes was that we would continue to push to the bottom HDP in every poor village around the world and the NRM into all the religious forms. I noticed in John Cock’s Journey Reflections today reference to Jim Rigby. He’s the Presbyterian minister in our neighborhood who I referenced his Easter service in an earlier post. He and his church, St. Andrews, is an amazing example of the new forms and by the way graduated from the same seminary as Joe Slicker. Jim is both mystic and activist. I don’t know of an local issue he doesn’t protest or testify for. He lives in the public. HIs church, a sanctuary one, houses and supports an immigrant family threatened with deportation, they feed the local homeless, has an organic garden done by members, a vital eco committee that pushes those issues far and wide, pushes the LBGTQI interests and has gays on his staff. They flew a huge banner on their lawn supporting Muslims and have muslims visitors frequently. St. Andrews is the only church I know that has the leading Atheist in Austin as a member. The pews on Sunday morning are filled with activists and his sermons break through the old Western Christian myths to a universal faith in action. He holds a conversation group on Tuesdays that allows participants to tie their experience to the deeps. It is a dynamic congregation. Jim has been regularly put on trial by his denomination to be defrocked, but less regularly now. <div class="">Also, he is a former rock musician, plays excellent guitar and each Sunday he and members conducts a puppet show for the kids during service explaining matters of faith they can participate in and they do. All this in a relatively small set of buildings.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 18, 2017, at 12:12 AM, Len Hockley via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="moz-cite-prefix" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Does everyone know the story of how we got preludes and postludes in our services? It goes something like:<br class=""><br class="">In the reformation the Calvinists and others decided that there would be no music in the service but that was the last straw for many and so added music before and after.<br class=""><br class="">Len<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class="">On 4/17/2017 4:31 PM, Susan Fertig via OE wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote cite="mid:E8DCC4B20C9DAA43B12060D860A228B3168A4B1E@GMDEXCHANGE.gmd.local" type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Worship music is such an interesting part of worship. “What Child is This” was set to the music for “Greensleeves,” which was a song about a prostitute. For many years churches refused to allow organ music, considering it profane. Now organ music is standard, but drums are still controversial in some congregations. In my church, we have a very traditional Rite I Eucharist at 8 am, a blended (mostly traditional) Service at 9 am, and a contemporary Service at 11 am. The 8 am Service is small (about 100 people); the 9 am and 11 am each draw about 1,000 people on a normal Sunday. On Christmas and Easter we add a Service to accommodate the “Chreasters” who only come on those special days.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I must admit that unconventional worship music was one of the powerful draws for me in the Spirit Movement—my heart leapt and danced and I was entranced. Then somewhere along the way, in mainstream worship Services, I began to feel that contemporary “Praise Music” was sort of “over the top” and emotionally manipulative, or, as a Baptist friend put it, “spirit candy.” I had to be wooed back to it over time (<i class="">2 Samuel</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>helped as I realized that David himself was “over the top” in worship and dancing). Now one of my favorite contemporary hymns is by the group Hillsong: “<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcnfT4arZtI" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">I Surrender</a>” (it lifts my heart to renewed commitment every time I hear it).<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">In terms of musical grandeur that seems inconsistent with the NT lifestyle and “more appropriate to royalty than to us,” as you put it, I don’t really have any difficulty with that—it seems only natural that we would offer the best of the artistry available to us for worship, the best of our creativity for the Creator.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Papyrus; color: rgb(8, 8, 8);" class="">Susan<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(8, 8, 8);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Papyrus; color: rgb(8, 8, 8);" class="">Susan Fertig-Dykes<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Papyrus; color: rgb(8, 8, 8);" class="">(personal email account)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Papyrus; color: rgb(8, 8, 8);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Papyrus;" class="">And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought . Isaiah 58:11</span></i><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Papyrus;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Protect against email address harvesting:<br class="">Use "BCC" when sending to multiple addresses;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">delete senders’ E-Mail addresses when forwarding.</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;" class="">NOTE: I won’t be offended if you ask me to remove you from my emails.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>OE [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>John Epps via OE<br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday, April 17, 2017 5:50 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thomas Morrison<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:2tjmorrison@gmail.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><2tjmorrison@gmail.com></a>; Order Ecumenical Community<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><oe@lists.wedgeblade.net></a><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Oe List ...] Easter Reflections<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class="">Easter Reflection #2:</b> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">I’ve never heard anything like it.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">The ordinary mode of beginning the Sunday worship service at Montview Presbyterian Church is the sound of chimes after which the congregation is invited to quietly make the transition from getting there to being there. This Sunday, being Easter, the sanctuary was overflowing with people enthusiastically greeting each other with churchy cordiality and requests from the front to move closer together in the pews to accommodate more people. I was sitting quietly waiting for the chimes, hoping to be able to hear them over the din, and looking forward to a few moments of silence to absorb the beauty of the surroundings.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Suddenly from the choir loft came a deafening crash of cymbals followed by a brass and organ fanfare that filled the gothic architecture with ear-splitting wonder that lasted a full 5 minutes. After the final grand chord, the congregation was speechless. The impact was powerful and profound, setting the tone for something grand about to happen. For me, if nothing else occurred during the service, the Easter wonder had happened.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">The piece was Grand Choeur Dialogue by Eugene Gigout; you can find it at:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rufxt80iVA0" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rufxt80iVA0</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 33);" class=""></span></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">But that was only the first musical treat. The brass and organ and choir continued their gift of awe-producing sounds during the hymns, anthem, and offertory anthem.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZtIRp3Vglw" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZtIRp3Vglw</span></a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 102, 33);" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>was the anthem.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">By the time we left, I was done in, having experienced something of a resurrection.<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 102, 33);" class=""></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Since then,<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>I’ve been wrestling with the thought that such grandeur was not at all like the lifestyle portrayed in the New Testament. Though it clearly portrays the significance of the Easter event for Christians, the music and setting seemed more appropriate to royalty than to us. Recent Public TV shows featuring Henry VIII picture a setting in which this type of music would have been right at home. Maybe the point is that awe happens in the midst of the ordinary as surprises sometime break through that are not of our doing. If, as I have contended elsewhere, surprises are where we are confronted by Mystery, that certainly happened at the Denver Montview Presbyterian Church (a former Galaxy church once co-pastored by Ken Barley) on Easter Sunday, 2017.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 1:26 PM, Thomas Morrison via OE <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div><blockquote style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 0in 0in 0in 6pt; margin-left: 4.8pt; margin-right: 0in;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Hi everyone,<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Adding to the discussion . . .<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">We in the USA generally define reality as having four dimensions: length, width, height and time.<br class="">It is a choice we have made, and is nicely measureable with our existing instruments and chosen senses.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Mathematically we could have five, six, whatever number of dimensions we would want to explore.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">As far as our senses go, there are others beyond the usual USA list.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">I bump into this as a psychiatric therapist from time to time.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Again, I choose to pay attention to the experiences or not, depending on how important it is to the client (or me--grin).<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Tom Morrison<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Jack Gilles via OE <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div><blockquote style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 0in 0in 0in 6pt; margin-left: 4.8pt; margin-right: 0in;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Susan,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Happy Easter to you as well! I was wondering how you would describe the dimension you speak of? I happen to agree with you, but I use the term Void, which is the eternal, existing along side the time/space experience. The Other World in the midst of this world.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Grace & Peace,<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Jack<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">On Apr 16, 2017, at 12:14, Susan Fertig via OE <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Isn’t your hip out of socket yet, James? All that wrestling with the Archangel…</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Surrender and rejoice, friend. The Resurrection is real, not a metaphor.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Neither is it a 3-tiered universe; just another dimension altogether.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Papyrus; color: rgb(8, 8, 8);" class="">Susan</span></i><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(8, 8, 8);" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Papyrus; color: rgb(8, 8, 8);" class="">Susan Fertig-Dykes</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Papyrus; color: rgb(8, 8, 8);" class="">(personal email account)</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Papyrus; color: rgb(8, 8, 8);" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Papyrus;" class="">And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought . Isaiah 58:11</span></i><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Protect against email address harvesting:<br class="">Use "BCC" when sending to multiple addresses;<span class="m-1371382113531302430m3969685334754093060apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">delete senders’ E-Mail addresses when forwarding.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;" class="">NOTE: I won’t be offended if you ask me to remove you from my emails.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">From:</span></b><span class="m-1371382113531302430m3969685334754093060apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">OE [<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: purple;" class="">mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net</span></a>]<span class="m-1371382113531302430m3969685334754093060apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On Behalf Of<span class="m-1371382113531302430m3969685334754093060apple-converted-space"> </span></b>James Wiegel via OE<br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="m-1371382113531302430m3969685334754093060apple-converted-space"> </span>Sunday, April 16, 2017 12:24 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="m-1371382113531302430m3969685334754093060apple-converted-space"> </span>Mary Kurian DSouza <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:marykdsouza@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: purple;" class="">marykdsouza@gmail.com</span></a>>; Order Ecumenical Community <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: purple;" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</span></a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="m-1371382113531302430m3969685334754093060apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Oe List ...] Easter Reflections</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Thank you for the reflections and the reminiscences. I must admit I am wrestling some this week and still at Easter morn. We get netflix dvds sent to us and last night, as we paused from getting ready for the potluck we are hosting, we watched the dvd we got in the mail. Martin Scorceses SILENCE, about Jesuit priests on mission in Japan in the 1600's. Lots of persecutions, apostasy as well.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">All this for the metaphor of death and rebirth? Hmmmm. I read over the christ lecture transcribed in Bending History as well as the bits of the gospels. Deepened the wrestling. All complicated by a 10 year old grandson who has decided to be baptized today. Have to stop here and go hide easter eggs . . .<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <o:p class=""></o:p></p><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Jim Wiegel<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13pt;" class="">401 North Beverly Way, Tolleson, Arizona 85353</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Tel.<span style="font-size: 13pt;" class=""> </span><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="tel:011-623-936-8671" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13pt; color: purple;" class="">011-623-936-8671</span></a><span style="font-size: 13pt;" class=""> or </span><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="tel:011-623-363-3277" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13pt; color: purple;" class="">011-623-363-3277</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:marilyn.oyler@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: purple;" class="">jfwiegel@yahoo.com</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.partnersinparticipation.com/" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: purple;" class="">www.partnersinparticipation.com</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">"<span style="font-size: 13pt;" class="">We are no longer living in an era of change. We are living in a change of era." 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First of all, Bill Bailey's resonating wake-up accompanied by the gong. Barb Garrison & I played the Hallelujah Chorus on the baby grand. Breakfast included a huge slab of salmon. Oh my goodness -- If life had caused you to need some patching up, the best prescription would be 4 years in the OKC RH with Bill & Marianna. Thank you for those experiences, Marianna!<br class="">All the best,<br class="">Nancy Trask<br class=""> <br class="">----- Original Message -----<br class="">From: Marianna Bailey via OE <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: purple;" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</span></a>><br class="">To: Frank Knutson <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:f.knutson@earthlink.net" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: purple;" class="">f.knutson@earthlink.net</span></a>>, Order Ecumenical Community <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: purple;" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</span></a>><br class="">Sent: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 19:37:37 -0400 (EDT)<br class="">Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Easter Reflections<o:p class=""></o:p></p><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">I have been reminiscing...<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Does anyone remember Easter Sunday in the Religious House? A very special day for the "wake up" ritual.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Marianna<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><br class="">Sent from my iPhone<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br class="">On Apr 15, 2017, at 4:00 PM, Frank Knutson via OE <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: purple;" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</span></a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></p><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Thank’s John, for the reminder.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><br class="">“And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about”</span></b><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">~Haruki Murakami</span></b><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'Hobo Std', sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""><VIKING copy.jpeg></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;" class="">❤</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;" class="">Frank</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'Hobo Std', sans-serif;" class="">On Apr 15, 2017, at 10:19 AM, John Epps via OE <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: purple;" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</span></a>> wrote:</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'Hobo Std', sans-serif;" class="">Coming to terms with the meaning<br class="">of the Easter story for us is difficult since times and world-views have<br class="">changed. We find it difficult even to grasp what it meant for those who first<br class="">told it, much less for us. Yet we are compelled to try by Paul’s admonition,<br class="">“If Christ is not raised, then our faith is in vain.” (I Cor. 15:14)</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'Hobo Std', sans-serif;" class="">One factor in the story must be<br class="">recognized: this is a tale of a bodily resurrection, not a “spiritual” one. The<br class="">risen one takes pains to force people to touch his wounds and so dispel the<br class="">notion of an ectoplasmic appearance. Whatever the implications, they are<br class="">physical, this worldly. The second factor is that stories of dying and rising<br class="">gods (or superheroes) were widespread throughout the Ancient Near East and<br class="">ancient Greece.<span class="m-1371382113531302430m3969685334754093060apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'Hobo Std', sans-serif;" class="">So what unique implications can<br class="">we draw from the story that are important today? Another way to ask it is<br class="">“Where today do we experience death and resurrection?”</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'Hobo Std', sans-serif;" class="">Both occur at the individual, natural,<br class="">and corporate levels. A word about each: Lately I have “died” when the classes<br class="">I have taught for 15 years were cancelled; I was “raised” when the University<br class="">called on me for 3 new classes. The slow and painful death of a dear aunt was<br class="">followed by a celebration honoring her life that brought back the wonder of her<br class="">artistry and love. These may seem trivial examples but dramatize the dynamics<br class="">in the story: Death/Resurrection happens to us all.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'Hobo Std', sans-serif;" class="">In nature, “Resurrection” has<br class="">long been a metaphor for the return of plant life in the Spring, at least in<br class="">the Northern hemisphere. And certainly, the emergence of leaves on barren<br class="">trees, of green in brown fields, and flowers from “dead” plants seem quite<br class="">miraculous.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'Hobo Std', sans-serif;" class="">At the corporate level, the death<br class="">and dying dynamic seems much more obvious that does resurrection. Many of our<br class="">hopes and dreams died with the November election. The horrors and complexity of<br class="">the Middle East conflicts and the appearance of global warming both represent a<br class="">death to life as we have known it. What resurrection will look like remains to<br class="">be seen.<span class="m-1371382113531302430m3969685334754093060apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'Hobo Std', sans-serif;" class="">Numerous efforts taken for<br class="">environmental protection certainly mark an awakening to the need for change,<br class="">but are faint heralds of a resurrected life. Numerous conferences aimed at<br class="">achieving some sort of resolution of Middle East conflicts so far remain<br class="">fruitless. As the story goes, it’s God who does the raising, not us. And when<br class="">it occurs, it’s far beyond our expectations. As I have said elsewhere, “Humankind has unimaginable<br class="">capacities to screw things up; yet Mystery generates unaccountable wonders out<br class="">of our messes.” (</span><em class=""><b class=""><u class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Hobo Std', sans-serif;" class="">Theology of Surprise</span></u></b></em><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'Hobo Std', sans-serif;" class="">,<br class=""></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">p. 39</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;" class="">) Our current situation brings to<br class="">mind a sermon that we heard in the Philippines during the last days of Marcos.<br class="">It was entitled “It feels like Friday, but Sunday is A-Coming!”</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'Hobo Std', sans-serif;" class="">Whether we’re enmeshed in the<br class="">death or the resurrection part of the dynamic, both are operative. 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