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<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>Lynda Cock <<a href="mailto:lynda860@outlook.com">lynda860@outlook.com</a>>, OE List <<a href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 3:55 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Carl & Ellie Stock <<a href="mailto:Elliestock@aol.com">Elliestock@aol.com</a>>, OE List <<a href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>><br>
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<div>Meaty discussion which has been very good. </div>
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<div>Are Schlesingers part of the Presbyterian mission? </div>
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<div>I have just received a mailing for Presbyterian World Mission Matching Gift Challenge with extended matching time. We want to send our little bit to Chenoa’s support. Is that through Pres World Mission? Could you send me again Chenoa’s # that must be
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<div>I know you sent it to me recently, but my desk is such a disaster, that everything I pick up needs something done with it. I’m afraid I will not get to it before being out of pocket for the next 10 days as I keep Jono and Kelley’s 4 children while they
are out of the country. They don’t live far, but I know my mind will be on other things this coming week, even when I get back home. </div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at 10:32 AM<br>
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<div>Thanks for sharing the witness of St Andres and Jim Rigby. </div>
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<div>Also, just received a pictoral and prose report of Project Vida from the Schlesingers--another resurrection community!</div>
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From: George Holcombe via Dialogue <<a href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>><br>
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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>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>
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<div>On Apr 18, 2017, at 12:12 AM, Len Hockley via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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Does everyone know the story of how we got preludes and postludes in our services? It goes something like:<br>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">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.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">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>2 Samuel</i><span class="aolmail_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 style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcnfT4arZtI" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">I
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">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
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="aolmail_Apple-converted-space"> </span>OE [<a class="aolmail_moz-txt-link-freetext" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" href="mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>]<span class="aolmail_Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On
Behalf Of<span class="aolmail_Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>John Epps via OE<br>
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<b>To:</b><span class="aolmail_Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thomas Morrison<span class="aolmail_Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="aolmail_moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" href="mailto:2tjmorrison@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><2tjmorrison@gmail.com></a>;
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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
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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.</div>
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The piece was Grand Choeur Dialogue by Eugene Gigout; you can find it at:<span class="aolmail_Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rufxt80iVA0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rufxt80iVA0</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 33);"></span></span></div>
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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="aolmail_Apple-converted-space"> </span><a style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZtIRp3Vglw" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span></a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZtIRp3Vglw" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZtIRp3Vglw</a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 102, 33);"><span class="aolmail_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>was
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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);"></span></div>
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Since then,<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="aolmail_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.</div>
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On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 1:26 PM, Thomas Morrison via OE <<a style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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We in the USA generally define reality as having four dimensions: length, width, height and time.<br>
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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.</div>
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On Apr 16, 2017, at 12:14, Susan Fertig via OE <<a style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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<b>Subject:</b><span class="aolmail_m-1371382113531302430m3969685334754093060apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Oe List ...] Easter Reflections</div>
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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.</div>
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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 . . .</div>
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On Apr 15, 2017, at 19:52, Mary Kurian DSouza via OE <<a style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: purple;"></span></a><a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>>
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On 16-Apr-2017, at 6:36 AM, Nancy Trask via OE <<a style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: purple;"></span></a><a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>>
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I vividly remember Easter mornings in the OKC RH with Bill & Marianna Bailey. 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>
All the best,<br>
Nancy Trask<br>
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To: Frank Knutson <<a style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" href="mailto:f.knutson@earthlink.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: purple;"></span></a><a href="mailto:f.knutson@earthlink.net">f.knutson@earthlink.net</a>>,
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Does anyone remember Easter Sunday in the Religious House? A very special day for the "wake up" ritual.</div>
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“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
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risen one takes pains to force people to touch his wounds and so dispel the<br>
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<span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'Hobo Std', sans-serif;">Both occur at the individual, natural,<br>
and corporate levels. A word about each: Lately I have “died” when the classes<br>
I have taught for 15 years were cancelled; I was “raised” when the University<br>
called on me for 3 new classes. The slow and painful death of a dear aunt was<br>
followed by a celebration honoring her life that brought back the wonder of her<br>
artistry and love. These may seem trivial examples but dramatize the dynamics<br>
in the story: Death/Resurrection happens to us all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'Hobo Std', sans-serif;">In nature, “Resurrection” has<br>
long been a metaphor for the return of plant life in the Spring, at least in<br>
the Northern hemisphere. And certainly, the emergence of leaves on barren<br>
trees, of green in brown fields, and flowers from “dead” plants seem quite<br>
miraculous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'Hobo Std', sans-serif;">At the corporate level, the death<br>
and dying dynamic seems much more obvious that does resurrection. Many of our<br>
hopes and dreams died with the November election. The horrors and complexity of<br>
the Middle East conflicts and the appearance of global warming both represent a<br>
death to life as we have known it. What resurrection will look like remains to<br>
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<span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'Hobo Std', sans-serif;">Numerous efforts taken for<br>
environmental protection certainly mark an awakening to the need for change,<br>
but are faint heralds of a resurrected life. Numerous conferences aimed at<br>
achieving some sort of resolution of Middle East conflicts so far remain<br>
fruitless. As the story goes, it’s God who does the raising, not us. And when<br>
it occurs, it’s far beyond our expectations. As I have said elsewhere, “Humankind has unimaginable<br>
capacities to screw things up; yet Mystery generates unaccountable wonders out<br>
of our messes.” (</span><em><b><u><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Hobo Std', sans-serif;">Theology of Surprise</span></u></b></em><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'Hobo Std', sans-serif;">,<br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">p. 39</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;">) Our current situation brings to<br>
mind a sermon that we heard in the Philippines during the last days of Marcos.<br>
It was entitled “It feels like Friday, but Sunday is A-Coming!”</span></div>
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