<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-size: 16px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: georgia,serif;"><div>I am truly grateful for our life together as Order: Ecumenical and our many and serious attempts to renew the local congregation. But these attempts failed. I find Gene Marshall's analysis most useful - "the institutions were old wineskins that could not hold the new wine."</div><div><br></div><div>As many of you know Gene was/is teaching an updated RS-1 called CR-21 Christian Resurgence for Century Twenty One. Given the failure of church renewal, his call is for a Resurgent Christianity. Bishop Jack Spong still hopes the current church can be radically reformed. More and more I find myself with Gene.</div><div><br></div><div>As I tried to write down stories from the two Galaxies I was part of it could not be done save the context of the attempt and its failure were clearly there so no one would be misled.</div><div><br></div><div>Upon returning as a member to the church whose cadre we once led I find no vestiges of the Galaxy efforts. No experimental worship, many mission efforts but none seriously challenging the social institutions, no experiments in Christian community.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides individual congregations here and there, are there efforts toward a Resurgent Christianity that should be known? Can they be replicated and become a movement? How are you all thinking about this?</div><br><div id="elnk_signature_1549663700453" style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: black;"><p>Zoe Barley <br>116 Jackson Street <br>Denver Colorado 80206 <br><a href="mailto:zbarley@earthlink.net">zbarley@earthlink.net</a> <br></p>
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