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8/11/16, Spong: The Unlikely Honored Guest at the Democratic National Convention
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31 Jul '18

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He was surrounded in that reserved and exclusive seating area by the power-elite of the Democratic Party: A former President, the sitting Vice-President and the “second lady,” the spouses and children of the nominees, as well as those especially invited guests, who were uniquely and politically related to the convention’s eventual nominee. This unlikely guest was in his own way quite unique. He was a Republican, one who had been elected to a state-wide office as a candidate of the opposition party. He served as the governor of Virginia from 1970 – 1974 and was the first Republican governor of Virginia since 1869 in the last days of reconstruction. Later he sought his party’s nomination to the Senate of the United States, losing to another Republican, John Warner, who served with distinction from 1979 until he retired in 2008. The name of this mystery quest is Abner Linwood Holton. He is now, and has been since the day I first met him, an extraordinary man. People, unaware of the history of the Democratic Party in Virginia, find it strange that the man I regarded as the best governor of Virginia during the years I lived in that state would be a Republican. Let me tell you his story.</p> <p>Linwood Holton was born in 1923 in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, a town deep in the heart of Appalachia. He was a Republican from the moment of his birth. He was also bright and ambitious. Being a Republican in Virginia in those days was to be part of a distinct minority, perhaps even an endangered one! The Democrats of Virginia were the only cohesive political force in the state. This majority party was run by Virginia’s senior United States Senator, Harry Flood Byrd, who after serving a term as governor from 1926 to 1930, effectively ran the state until he died in 1966. It was said of Harry Byrd that he and a few of his closest political advisors would sit on the porch at his home in Berryville, Virginia, and pick the candidates for every political vacancy in Virginia from governor on down. The electorate was deliberately kept small by poll taxes, which effectively discouraged both blacks and poor whites from voting. A Byrd loyalist was in every county seat in Virginia to run the party. Racism was deep and “States Rights” was a holy slogan designed to make racism seem socially acceptable. Virginia was a one party state. Frequently the Republicans would not even nominate candidates and, even when they did, no one paid much attention to them because whoever won the Democratic primary seldom even campaigned in the general election, since Republicans simply did not win in this state! Linwood Holton made it his life’s ambition to establish two-party politics in Virginia.</p> <p>He graduated from Washington and Lee in Lexington, Virginia, and then entered the law school at Harvard University. Along the way he married a Roanoke girl, named Virginia Rogers, who went by the name of Jinks. She was the daughter of Frank Rogers, an upright, but ultra-conservative, successful and well-connected Roanoke citizen, who was the grandson of the first Episcopal Bishop in Southwestern Virginia. In his mind, the two greatest virtues were to be a conservative Episcopalian and a loyal Byrd Democrat. Jinks, the more rebellious of Rogers’ two daughters, chose to marry a Republican and a Presbyterian! Supported by this remarkable woman, Linwood began his life’s task of strengthening Virginia’s Republican Party. This party’s base, such as it was, had always been in the mountains of the western part of Virginia. As a force in opposition to Byrd Democrats, the Virginia Republican party tilted slightly leftward. There was no room to the right of the Byrd machine. The Virginia Republicans were known for their party’s efforts to improve education statewide and to develop better state mental health facilities. Linwood’s organizational efforts were so successful that in 1965 he was the Republican nominee for governor opposing the Southside, Virginia, Byrd Democrat, Mills Godwin, who had emerged as the new leader of the Democratic Party. The sickness, retirement and subsequently the death of Senator Byrd meant that the torch of party leadership had to be passed to the next generation. It is interesting that Harry Byrd, Jr., always known as “Little Harry,” who was appointed to succeed his father in the Senate, did not succeed him in the leadership of the statewide Democratic Party. Holton was defeated in that first run for the governor’s office, but he garnered a respectable total of votes and succeeded in introducing himself to the state. The day after the defeat, he began planning for his second run in 1969. The governorship in Virginia, we need to note, is limited by the Constitution to a single term.</p> <p>National issues soon began to erode the Byrd majorities. Poll taxes were declared unconstitutional in 1964. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 opened the ballot to people of color. The feminist movement began to galvanize women into an effective political force. A national- thinking Virginia Democrat, named Henry Howell, began to build a liberal political base made up of labor unions, blacks, women and young people. His challenge to the Byrd machine resulted ultimately in his election as Lt. Governor in 1971, but he could go no farther. He remained anathema to Byrd Democrats. In the Democratic Primary of 1969, the Byrd candidate, William Battle, the son of former Governor John Battle, defeated Henry Howell in a bitter contest. The party could not heal this division, so in the General Election, Linwood Holton, supported by many of Howell’s still angry voters, rode to victory with a 65,000 vote majority.</p> <p>In his inaugural address, Holton called for an end to Virginia’s pattern of racial discrimination and its racist politics. No Virginia Governor had ever uttered such words before. Words, however, were not enough. People looked for actions. They would follow soon.</p> <p>In the most dramatic step imaginable, the new governor and his wife made the decision not to put their children in the church-related or independent private schools of Richmond, where all governors’ children had previously attended, but to enroll them in Richmond’s public schools which were at that time about 80% black. It was such a startling action for a Virginia politician that the New York Times covered it with a front page story and a picture of Virginia’s Governor Holton escorting one of his daughters into a school surrounded by a host of black faces smiling broadly. In a state where the official response of the ruling Democratic machine to “Brown vs. the Board of Education,” had been to call for “massive resistance to the law of the land,” a state in which some counties chose to close their public schools rather than to integrate them, here was the highest elected official in the state escorting his children into the majority black public schools of Richmond, Virginia. No action could have announced better that a new day was dawning in what had once been the capital of the Confederacy. One of those Holton children entering those public schools on that day was their oldest daughter, Anne.</p> <p>The white population of Virginia was shocked. They believed and stated that their new governor was sacrificing his children on the “altar of integration.” Many suggested that the “inferior education” that his children would receive in those heavily black schools would cripple them for life. It was a strange argument that gave the lie to the previous white claim that all of its racially segregated schools were “separate, <em>but equal</em>.” Anne, in her early teens, would be an exemplary student. She received a fine education and upon graduation from high school would be admitted to Princeton University, from which she graduated <em>magna cum laude</em>. She seemed not to have been penalized at all in her educational achievements. After Princeton she was accepted into the class of 1983 at the Harvard Law School, from which she now holds a doctor of Jurisprudence degree. From there she went into a legal career that in time would include being a domestic relations judge and Virginia’s Education Secretary.</p> <p>While at Harvard she met, fell in love with and married a fellow law student, who was born in Minnesota and educated at the University of Missouri. His name was Tim Kaine. She lured him back to Richmond, where his earlier life experiences, including his Jesuit high school education, his year as a volunteer missionary to Honduras and his mastery of the Spanish language, prepared him to begin his Richmond law practice as a civil rights attorney. Then responding to an expressed community need, he entered politics at the most local of levels, running for a seat on Richmond’s nine-member City Council. In a majority black city, Tim not only won that seat, but was also later elected by that majority-black city council to be Richmond’s Mayor. Two years later, in 2001 he moved to the state level, being elected Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor. In 2005, he won the governor’s office. His wife, Anne Holton, became the first person to be at one time living in the governor’s mansion as the child of a Republican governor and then a second time as the state’s first lady and wife of a Democratic governor. In 2012, Tim Kaine won a seat in the United States Senate. In 2016, with two years remaining in his first term as senator, he was chosen by the presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, to be her vice-presidential running mate. Anne Holton was there with him, waving to the crowd on the final night. As Hillary Clinton raised Tim Kaine’s hand high, former president Bill Clinton was at her side and Anne Holton was at Tim Kaine’s side. The crowd roared with approval.</p> <p>In the VIP section of that vast Philadelphia arena sat the former Republican Governor Linwood Holton, now 92 years old, with his wife Jinks, both still vibrant and attractive, watching their daughter being introduced to the nation. There is sometimes a reward for integrity. Linwood and Jinks Holton, who would not allow their lives to be twisted by the prejudice of racism, challenged the distorting and debilitating social structures of his generation in Richmond, Virginia. Doing what is right sometimes carries with it intimations of transcendence and even immortality. To this day he remains one of my heroes.</p> <p>John Shelby Spong</p> <p>Read the essay online <a target="_blank" style="color: #4487cf;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;" href="http://johnshelbyspong.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b51b9cf441b059bb2…">here</a>.</p> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <table border="0" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="color: #000000;font-family: Georgia;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"><h2 style="color: #4487cf;display: block;font-family: Georgia;font-size: 30px;font-weight: normal;line-height: 100%;margin-top: 0;margin-right: 0;margin-bottom: 10px;margin-left: 0;text-align: left;">Question & Answer</h2> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Alberto Mejia Aguilera from Mexico writes via the internet:</span></p> <h4 style="color: #4487cf;display: block;font-family: Georgia;font-size: 22px;font-weight: normal;line-height: 100%;margin-top: 0;margin-right: 0;margin-bottom: 10px;margin-left: 0;text-align: left;"> Question:</h4> <p>I am from Mexico and I would like to know your opinion about Liberation Theology. Do you think that this theology is still an inspiration for the struggle against the social injustice?</p> <h4 style="color: #4487cf;display: block;font-family: Georgia;font-size: 22px;font-weight: normal;line-height: 100%;margin-top: 0;margin-right: 0;margin-bottom: 10px;margin-left: 0;text-align: left;">Answer:</h4> <p>Dear Alberto,</p> <p>Liberation theology was, I believe, was born in Latin America, so you should be especially proud of it. I associate the name of Leonardo Boff, primarily, with it, but there were others like the murdered Bishop Oscar Romero. It was born in an attempt to apply the principles of the gospel not just to individuals, but also to the structures of our society, which so often drive the masses into poverty. It identifies God with the poor. For those reasons it tended to be resisted in ecclesiastical circles, especially by the leaders of the Roman Catholic during the years of Popes John Paul II and Benedict, both of whom were so politically conservative that they saw it as another manifestation of Communism. I think they were both wrong in this judgment. Liberation theology, I believe, constituted a call to Christianity to see that its alliance with power, both in Europe and the new world, had corrupted the essential justice that Christianity requires.</p> <p>Christianity was born among the poor and the outcasts. It rose to dominate society and so became the religion of kings. Liberation Theology was a necessary correction.</p> <p>I wish you well.</p> <p>John Shelby Spong <a target="_blank" style="color: #4487cf;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;" href="http://johnshelbyspong.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b51b9cf441b059bb23…">Read and Share Online Here</a></p> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <table border="0" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="color: #000000;font-family: Georgia;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"><h2 style="color: #4487cf;display: block;font-family: Georgia;font-size: 30px;font-weight: normal;line-height: 100%;margin-top: 0;margin-right: 0;margin-bottom: 10px;margin-left: 0;text-align: left;">Announcements</h2> <div style="text-align: center;color: #000000;font-family: Georgia;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;"><a target="_blank" style="color: #4487cf;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;" href="http://johnshelbyspong.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b51b9cf441b059bb2…"><img align="none" height="262" style="width: 350px;height: 262px;margin: 0px;border: none;font-size: 14px;font-weight: bold;line-height: 100%;outline: none;text-decoration: none;text-transform: capitalize;display: inline;" width="350" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/b51b9cf441b059bb232418480/images/e67ac6a0-334…"></a></div> <h2 style="color: #4487cf;display: block;font-family: Georgia;font-size: 30px;font-weight: normal;line-height: 100%;margin-top: 0;margin-right: 0;margin-bottom: 10px;margin-left: 0;text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:26px"><span style="color:#000000">Bishop Spong at the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan September 10th & 11th</span></span></h2> <strong>Schedule:</strong> Saturday, September 10, 2016 1:00 pm at the Reynolds Recital Hall, Northern Michigan University 7:00 pm at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Marquette Sunday, September 11, 2016 2:00 pm at the Memorial Union Building , Michigan Technological University At each location, there will be an opportunity for Q&A and book signing.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top"> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></center><center><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" id="aolmail_canspamBarWrapper" style="background-color:#FFFFFF; border-top:1px solid #E5E5E5;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="padding-top:20px; padding-bottom:20px;"> </td></tr></tbody></table></center></div> </div> <style type="text/css">#AOLMsgPart_2_1c149769-41d3-4c3b-8300-eaccdde19ae7 td{color: black;} @media only screen and (max-width: 480px){ .aolReplacedBody table[id="canspamBar"] td{font-size:14px !important;} .aolReplacedBody table[id="canspamBar"] td a{display:block !important; margin-top:10px !important;} } </style>

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Chronological History - Editing with David Dunn for 2nd Edition
by Beret Griffith via Dialogue 04 Jun '17

04 Jun '17

Colleagues: The first go-around we did not get descriptions or number of years in business. Please make corrections and/or additions to the text. Thanks, Beret & David Page 88 from the Chronological History --------------------------------------------------------------- Staff operated businesses provided staff support: • Bombay: Jack Gilles, Dick and Gail West, and Kevin Balm • Brussels: Ken Whitney—the American Handiman from 1977–1979—with help from Clare Whitney, and occasionally Paul Schrijnen, earned enough to pay off old bills, pay stipends, and send all staff members to Chicago for summer programs (Clare Whitney, July 17, 2015). • Chicago: Jim Troxel, • Hong Kong: Dan Tuecke, • Houston: Tim Wegner, • Los Angeles: Milan and Linda Hamilton founded Food For All to raise funds for anti-hunger projects. See www.mellowmilan.blogspot.com • Sydney • New York: Scott and Doris Morris and others did programming, consulting, and training as Computer Paradigm. • Toronto: PEOPLEnergy—Jan Sanders, Ian Gilmore, and (currently) Jeanette Stanfield • Washington, DC: Stan Crow, and Linda and Lester Knudsen sold Kaypro computers and did programming, consulting, and training as Computer Paradigm.

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Chronological History - Adding Information AFTER 1988
by Beret Griffith via Dialogue 31 May '17

31 May '17

Please note that you can directly add any information directly to the Chronological History Addendum 1989-2017. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y0IgEUDJLGzZJp_DVoZ0ZwE4 hiLfZ7inTTTmD9nLEdo/edit ADDENDUM THE INSTITUTE OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS 1989–2017 AN INVITATION TO CONTRIBUTE to the ICA HISTORICAL RECORD Guidelines for contributing 1. Dates 2. Places 3. Names 4. Contributor name/date 5. Source of information

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It takes a village . . . .
by James Wiegel via Dialogue 29 May '17

29 May '17

This week i complete my 72nd orbit round the sun. You all are a powerful part of the fabric of my life. Thanks for that. Thanks. Jim Wiegel 401 North Beverly Way, Tolleson, Arizona 85353 Tel. 011-623-936-8671 or 011-623-363-3277 jfwiegel(a)yahoo.com www.partnersinparticipation.com "We are no longer living in an era of change. We are living in a change of era." Francis Upcoming public course opportunities click here http://partnersinparticipation.com/?page_id=10 For online registration go to http://www.top-training.net The AZ ToP® Community of Practice meets the 1st Friday, 1-4 pm, starting again on Sept 5th at ACYR, 648 N. 5th Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85003 AICP Planners: 14.5 CM for all ToP® courses

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The New Format ICAI Winds and Waves
by ICA International via Dialogue 28 May '17

28 May '17

Any problem reading this message please click or paste this URL in your browser's address bar http://windswaves.icai-archives.org/emails/email-new-winds-waves-17.htm The new Winds and Waves. Dear colleagues, We are delighted to invite you to share your stories via medium.com. which is the public platform we are moving to publish on now. Please note the attachment which sets out how to do this for Winds and Waves. Please see attachment here This may take a little getting used to, and individuals will need to sign into medium.com. However once you do this, apart from Winds and Waves articles, there is a whole wealth of information, articles and stories to enjoy and dialogue with. Please be sure to send this invitation to your ICA members and friends, colleagues, partners, family, so they can participate, and we can build on these two inaugural articles. Let us take this opportunity to join with the globe in sharing what works, and the challenges in the wide field of human and environmental sustainable development! Best wishes, Dharma, Peter, Roma, Rosemary, Robyn for WW team Published by The Institute of Cultural Affairs International, 401 Richmond Street, West Toronto, ON. M5V 3A8 Canada All rights reserved. For more information or to unsubscribe, email: inform(a)ica-international.org

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TODAY'S THE DAY: 5/24/17 Resource Extraction Call: DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY
by Ellie Stock via Dialogue 24 May '17

24 May '17

TODAY'S THE DAY: DON'T MISS!! THIS NEXT VERY IMPORTANT RESOURCE EXTRACTION CALL: TODAY: WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 2017 2:00PM CENTRAL/3:00PM EST CALL #: (605) 475-3215, Access Code: 180305# TOPIC: THE DOCTRINE OF CHRISTIAN DISCOVERY, a follow-up from Standing Rock: the legal and theological premise for political oppression and land, environmental, and resource extraction exploitation Presentations and discussion. Take time to view the online films on the DOCTRINE OF CHRISTIAN DISCOVERY (see links below). Dear Resource Extraction Friends, May Greetings! Have you ever heard of the DOCTRINE OF CHRISTIAN DISCOVERY? This IMPORTANT topic is a follow-up from our November 2016 call on Standing Rock but has implications for peoples nationally and globally, particularly Original Nations, Communities and Peoples, including the communities in Peru, Bolivia, El Salvador, Ecuador, Haiti, Cameroon, The Republic of Congo and places of focus on previous Resource Extraction Calls. What is it??? The Doctrine of Discovery, initiated by 15h century and after Papal Bulls and Royal Charters from Spain, Portugal, England, France, and The Netherlands, was a commission and permission for explorers to claim and take over lands and to dislocate, relocate, assimilate and annihilate peoples who were not Christian and therefore were not considered to be human, but pagan and infidels. Why does it matter?? Today, the Doctrine of Discovery remains the organic law for Indian Federal Law and legal precedent for the taking of lands by force which continues not only in relation to Native American Communities in the United States but through corporations' and government's taking of land and resources, eminent domain, and national and foreign policy. When 534 clergy and religious gathered in Standing Rock in November 2016, they gathered in prayer and they repudiated and ceremonially burned the Doctrine of Discovery. What has been done?? Many denominations have repudiated The Doctrine of Discovery. The PC(USA) joined them in 2016 when the 222nd General Assembly also voted to repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery and apologized for running boarding schools that separated Native American children from their families and tried to "civilize" and "Christianize" them. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA): The 222nd General Assembly (2016) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), meeting in Portland, Oregon in June, passed two overtures which effect the 95 Native American Presbyterian churches across the country: -An apology to Native American’s for the church’s involvement and administration of boarding schools during the late 19th and early 20th centuries whose purpose was the “civilization” of Native American children. -A repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery: this “doctrine” derives its authority from Pope’s and European royal decrees stating “explorers” may seize lands and convert “non-Christians” in their name and for the good of the Christian Church. It remains the basis, as late as 2005, for Indian Law and Supreme Court decisions against Tribes. It has become clear that the PC(USA) is becoming more aware of the struggles that Native American Presbyterians and all Native Americans have faced in the past and are dealing with today. It is my hope that in discussing these issues across the church an impact can be made that not only raises awareness within the church of these issues, but also generates action by Presbyterians. “May the warm winds of heaven blow softly upon you And the Creator make sunrise in your hearts.” (Cherokee Prayer) The Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) The Rev. Irvin Porter Associate in the PC(USA) Office of Native American Intercultural Congregational Support The United Nations and many groups have been working to address current issues related to the Doctrine of Discovery, how it affects our lives today, and implications for the future. JOIN THIS IMPORTANT CALL TO LEARN MORE. Special presenters for the call will be: -Elona Street-Stewart, Member of the Delaware Nanticoke Nation, PC(USA) Ruling Elder and Executive of the Synod of Lakes and Prairies--first Native American PC(USA) synod executive. -Fr. Daniel LeBlanc, OMI (Oblates of Mary Immaculate), serving in justice ministries in urban Lima and the high jungle for 30 years and now working with the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues which has focused on the Doctrine of Discovery. Below is additional information: 1) Biographical information on the presenters 2) Links to two online videos on the DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY: -"Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery" [43 minutes; grounds it in the resource extractive industries] -"Exposing the Doctrine of Discovery" [9 minutes; education piece by the Episcopalian Church] I invite you to watch these videos between now and May 24, and our call will focus on these videos as well the presenters' information about the Doctrine of Discovery and implications for our times. [Another good resource is the film "The Doctrine of Discovery, Unmasking the Domination Code" based on the book Steven Newcomb's book Pagans in the Promised Land--Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery.] 3) Additional links to resources on the Doctrine of Discovery: PC(USA)/Ecumenical and United Nations/Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (PFFI) The Doctrine of Discovery is a topic that was addressed at the April 2017 Compassion, Peace, and Justice Training/Ecumenical Advocacy Day /Lobby Event in Washington, D.C. and also will be a focus at July The BIG TENT event in St Louis, and also at the Presbyterians for Earth Care Conference in Portland in September. Looking forward to gathering around the Call Table May 24. Please share this email notice with anyone who might be interested. Grace and peace~ Ellie elliestock(a)aol.com (314) 521-8418 1) PRESENTERS FOR THE 5/24/17 RESOURCE EXTRACTION CALL ON THE DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY: MS. ELONA STREET-STEWART, RULING ELDER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA) Synod Executive, Synod of Lakes and Prairies Elona Street-Stewart is a ruling elder and member of Dayton Avenue Presbyterian Church in Saint Paul, MN. She is the Synod Executive for the Synod of Lakes and Prairies, having previously served as Synod Staff Associate for racial Ethnic Ministries and Community Empowerment. She has served PC (USA) in many capacities for many years on racial justice matters in mission development and support programs. Ms. Stewart, member of the Delaware Nanticoke Nation, is the ﬁrst Native American to be installed as a synod executive with PC (USA). She has spent many years serving her communities as well as the church and has served on many non-profits in Minnesota advocating for the education, employment and health of people of color and American Indians. She served 12 years on the Board of Education for Saint Paul Public Schools and both the National and Minnesota School Board Associations. She has also served on the Minnesota Council of churches and with the St. Paul Area Council of Churches' Department of Indian Work. Ms. Stewart cares deeply about these issues, and her passion dates back to the 1970s, when the nation was celebrating the Bicentennial and the "discovery" and "civilization" of this land, and when there were calls for the church "to join tribal leadership to examine the root causes of the poverty, racism, and invisibility of our communities." In November 2016 Ms. Stewart and her husband, Rev. David Stewart, were part of a PC(USA) delegation to Standing Rock (see link below). She has recently facilitated workshops on Standing Rock and the Doctrine of Discovery at the PC(USA) Compassion, Peace and Justice Training and Ecumenical Advocacy Days events. She will lead a similar workshop at the PC(USA) BIG TENT event this July in St. Louis, MO. PC(USA) synod executive Street-Stewart recounts trip to ... Https: › /www.presbyterianmission.org/story/pcusa-synod-executive... ... synod executive Street-Stewart recounts trip to Standing Rock. PC(USA) synod executive Street-Stewart recounts ... Rock as a representative of the PC(USA) synod ... REV. DANIEL LEBLANC, OMI, Staff - Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation; omiusajpic.org Associate, International JPIC Office and Oblate UN Representative - New York Daniel has been a member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate since 1971. Daniel is Canadian, but worked in Peru from 1978 until his appointment to the Oblates' General Administration JPIC Office in April 2007. During his thirty years in Peru, Daniel served the urban poor of the capital city, Lima, as pastor of several parishes in the Diocese of Carabayllo and also in the high jungle. He worked on a variety of justice issues from assisting victims of terrorism to investigating mass graves and helping to bring perpetrators to justice. He also studied law at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). For many years, he was a member, as well as Chair, of the Latin American OMI Commission of Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation (JPIC). On June 5, 1992, Fr. Daniel was a victim of a terrorist attack. A car bomb with 600 kilos of dynamite exploded outside a television station located across the street from the Oblates' provincial house. Father Daniel was asleep at the time. He suffered serious injuries that left him unconscious for days. “At one point they had declared me dead but that turned out to be a little premature,” Fr. Daniel now jokes. “There were about 70,000 people killed during Peru's 20-year civil war, but I was not one of them.” Currently Fr. Daniel represents the Oblate Congregation, recognized as an NGO at the United Nations, where he follows the work of the Commissions on Social Development, including the sub-committee on the eradication of poverty, Sustainable Development, the ), Financing for Development and Migration, and the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (PFII), the focus of which in 2012 was the Doctrine of Discovery. Issues he has worked on include land-grabbing by the government of Bangladesh against the Garo and Khasi indigenous people, promoting peace and reconciliation during the civil war in Sri Lanka, and efforts along the U.S./Mexico border to promote justice for migrants and immigrants. 2) FILMS ON THE DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY Movie – Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery (Mennonites,others) [43"] https://dofdmenno.org/movie “The Doctrine of Discovery: In the Name of Christ” This 43-minute documentary has three parts: History of the Doctrine of Discovery and its basis in Christian ... "Exposing the Doctrine of Discovery" (Episcopal Church) [13'59"] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drLnI_k5b6s&;;; 3) DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY RESOURCES: PC(USA; ECUMENICAL; UNITED NATIONS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA) RESOURCES: Standing Rock: Religious Leaders repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery, November 2016: PC(USA) faith leaders join Standing Rock solidarity gathering: Apology and support for ongoing struggle offered to tribal leaders Facebook page Irvin Porter, Multicultural/Native American Ministries: https://www.facebook.com/Native-American-Ministries-PCUSA-232067750278099/. Presbyterian News Service article re: apology to Native Americans: http://www.pcusa.org/news/2017/3/17/alaska-mayor-acknowledges-pcusa-apology/ and a youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tshc5mwli6o&feature=share. Link for Doctrine of Discovery: https://www.pc-biz.org/#/search/3000074. PC(USA) synod executive Street-Stewart recounts trip to ... Https: › /www.presbyterianmission.org/story/pcusa-synod-executive... ... synod executive Street-Stewart recounts trip to Standing Rock. PC(USA) synod executive Street-Stewart recounts ... Rock as a representative of the PC(USA) synod ... ECUMENICAL RESOURCES: SOCIETY OF FRIENDS: NYYM and the Doctrine of Discovery | New York Yearly Meeting nyym.org › ?q=DoctrineofDiscovery The Religious Society of Friends ... New York Yearly Meeting and the Doctrine of Discovery, ... the Doctrine of Discovery NYYM Actions. New York Yearly ... MENNONITES: Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery – A movement of ... dofdmenno.org Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery A movement of Anabaptist people of faith. Menu. Skip to content. About; Learn More; Movie; Study Guide; Get Involved; Contact ... Movie About Study Guide Act Now Contact Blog Q: What is the “Doctrine of Discovery?” doctrineofdiscoverymenno.files.wordpress › 2015/06/dod... Q: What is the “Doctrine of Discovery?” The “Doctrine of Discovery” is a philosophical and legal framework dating to the 15th century that gave Christian ... NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER Doctrine of Discovery: A scandal in plain sight | National ... ncronline.org › news/peace-justice/doctrine-discovery... As for the doctrine’s more recent ... The papal documents led to an international norm called the Doctrine of Discovery, ... National Catholic Reporter ... UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: THE REPUDIATION OF THE DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY Uccfiles › pdf/DoctrineofDiscovery.pdf DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY ... of Discovery. Rethink theology, bible study and ... and concern in the United States about the Doctrine, the United Church of Christ, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE MINISTRIES: Environmental Justice with Indigenous Peoples presbyterianmission.org › wp-content/uploads/2017Earth... Source: “Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery” exhibit, Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery Working Group, dofdmenno.org. 2 BIBlE STUDY: PSAlm 24 UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION RE INDIGENOUS RIGHTS/DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY: PERMANENT FORUM ON INDIGENOUS RIGHTS The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues www.chiefs-of-ontario.org/sites/default/files/files/NITV Staff... Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues ... Mandate of the Permanent Forum • To discuss indigenous issues within the ... United Nations Created Date: 4/27/2012 3:07 ... United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Permanent_Forum_on... The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII or PFII) ... UN DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples www.nnhrc.navajo-nsn.gov/docs/UN Declaration on the Rights of... United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples . ... Solemnly proclaims the following United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous INDIGENOUS PEOPLES FORUM ON DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY, ARIZONA, 2012 [Reported to the 2012 UN PFII: Doctrine of Discovery] Doctrine of Discovery conference, Arizona, March 2012 ... https://www2.palomar.edu/pages/aaquallo/2012/03/28/doctrine-of... Doctrine of Discovery conference, Arizona, March 2012. ... This is an awesome article that was sent in response to the Doctrine of Discovery conference ... March 28 ... Indigenous Peoples Forum On Doctrine of Discovery at ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P8JO7XARko Indigenous Peoples Forum On Doctrine of Discovery at Arizona Capitol March 23, 2012 ... on the Doctrine of Discovery held at the Arizona State ... UN PERMANENT FORUM ON INDIGENOUS ISSUES, 2012: DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues - indianlaw.org indianlaw.org/sites/default/files/UNPFII_11th session report.pdf E/2012/43-E/C.19/2012/13 United Nations ... Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues shall be held at ... Future work of the Permanent Forum, including issues of the ... Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues - indianlaw.org indianlaw.org/sites/default/files/UNPFII_11th session report.pdf E/2012/43-E/C.19/2012/13 United Nations ... Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues shall be held at ... Future work of the Permanent Forum, including issues of the ... UNITED NATIONS PERMANENT FORUM ON INDIGENOUS ISSUES ... www.afn.ca/uploads/files/unpfii_undrip_2008-2012_northamerican... UNITED NATIONS PERMANENT FORUM ON INDIGENOUS ISSUES ... Permanent Forum will therefore ensure ... indigenous peoples, the United Nations system and other ... UNPFII Discussion: Doctrine of Discovery | Indigenous ... www.ienearth.org/unpfii-discussion-doctrine-of-discovery United Nations Permanent Forum 11 ... agencies of the United Nations that the doctrine of discovery is an ... the rights of Indigenous peoples. Issues ... Indigenous Peoples Forum on the Impact of the Doctrine of ... doctrineofdiscoveryforum.blogspot.com/2012/09/dismantling-doctrine... Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery. ... 2012 a public forum on the impact of the Doctrine of Discovery was ... UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues | The ... https://alanlechusza.wordpress.com/tag/united-nations-permanent... Posts about United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues ... 2012 the NAHUACALLI ... submission in May to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. [UNPFii 2012] The Doctrine of Discovery: its enduring ... aippnet.org/unpfii-2012-the-doctrine-of-discovery-its-enduring... [UNPFii 2012] The Doctrine of ... Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. ... (article 28 and 37 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples) ... United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues www.un.org/press/en/2012/hr5088.doc.htm ... Permanent Forum Told ‘Doctrine of Discovery’, ... Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues ... The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues will ... UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues discusses theme ... https://www.unngls.org/index.php/un-ngls_news_archives/2012/350-un... 2012; UN Permanent Forum on ... “The Doctrine of Discovery: ... She also urged the Forum to change its name to the “UN Permanent Forum on the Rights of Indigenous determination. UN PERMANENT FORUM ON INDIGENOUS ISSUES, 2017 UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 2017 lrinspire.com - 3 days ago In the Spirit of World Peace. In the Spirit of Peace with Mother Earth. In global acknowledgement of the INTERNATIONAL SPIRITUAL MONUMENT at STANDING ROCK, in the Oceti Sakowin Treaty ...

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Re: [Dialogue] Dialogue Digest, Vol 61, Issue 14
by Lawrence Philbrook via Dialogue 23 May '17

23 May '17

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Re: [Dialogue] [Oe List ...] Book Age of Discovery . . . JEANETTE this would be a good time . . .
by Jeanette Stanfield via Dialogue 19 May '17

19 May '17

Hi Jim, I have to laugh. I don't have any magic solutions here. There is a video I just saw that sure speaks to the predicament we humans are in around the world. You may have seen it. US military information is central piece of video. http://tvo.org/video/documentaries/the-age-of-consequences Just when you want to scream no more they do move to possibilities. I am convinced that our economic systems need to be fundamentally changed if humans are to have a chance of living sustainably and peacefully. My research question has been what does that new economic approach look like? I am not talking about philosophy here. I am looking at process, systems,principles.. The circle economy is part of this. Europe is exploring this in a number of ways as are some hubs of companies. Some talk about cradle to cradle products. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/publications These questions and many more are fueling innovation right now. How do we use less water in growing food? How do we use the universe's gifts to us like the sun and wind to fuel this new economy? What will it take to waste nothing that this earth has given us? Add your own questions. Whatever, we need a concrete vision of a new economy we can all create together with principles that care for the earth and all creatures including ourselves regardless of political system. Consensus around the economy we are trying to bring into being would allow appropriate skills training and give young people a standing place for creating their own careers and making a difference for the future. I suspect that as a global community we have the methods and wisdom to elicit that vision. Perhaps there are some young and old ones out there who are ready to take this on in both face to face and online experiences. I may feel old at times but there is still a lot of fire in these bones!😃 Cheers, Jeanette On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 1:41 PM, James Wiegel <jfwiegel(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > This from Milan Hamilton on Facebook this morning. "Opened my closet door > this morning & this t-shirt I bought in Barcelona last year at the Picasso > museum practically jumped out of the closet. I put it on to remind myself > of the chaos and craziness that surround My world and The world, whether in > my role as newly elected president of our co-operative housing association > or watching POTUS in his daily machinations. I should probably wear it > until it sinks in & clears up the confusion over whether there is any other > world for me to live in than the one we have right here-right now!" > > Jeanette, you said, "I am using book to help me plot what is happening". > This would be a good time to share what you found out about what is > happening . . . > > > Jim Wiegel <http://partnersinparticipation.com/?page_id=123> > “If you want an adventure . . . what a time to be alive!”. Joanna Macy > > 401 North Beverly Way,Tolleson, Arizona 85353 > 623-363-3277 <(623)%20363-3277> > jfwiegel(a)yahoo.com <marilyn.oyler(a)gmail.com> > www.partnersinparticipation.com > > Upcoming ToP training opportunities in Arizona > <http://partnersinparticipation.com/?page_id=10> > > More info on: > > ToP® Facilitation Methods <http://partnersinparticipation.com/?page_id=48> > > ToP® Strategic Planning <http://partnersinparticipation.com/?page_id=50>: > Mastering the Technology of Participation > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz3mniiYCdI> > > Register on line / see the ToP National Schedule > <http://www.top-training.net/> > AICP Planners: 14.5 CM for all ToP® courses > > The AZ ToP® Community of Practice > <http://partnersinparticipation.com/?page_id=203> meets the 1st Friday, > of every month, 1-4 pm, at ACYR, 648 N. 5th Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85003 > <https://www.google.com/maps/place/648+N+5th+Ave/@33.456329,-112.080545,16z/…> > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Jeanette Stanfield via OE <oe(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> > *To:* Colleague Dialogue <Dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net>; Order > Ecumenical Community <oe(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> > *Sent:* Sunday, April 2, 2017 3:12 PM > *Subject:* [Oe List ...] Book Age of Discovery > > Dear Colleagues, > > I am reading a book that challenges me so thought I would share it with > you. > > It is called Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of our new > Renaissance by Ian Goldin with Chris Kutarna at Oxford University. Ian > was an adviser to President Nelson Mandela. > > They have a whole research team from Oxford working with them. > > Here is link to to Ian's website which > includes 4 minute video sharing context of book:. https://iangoldin.org/ > books/age-of-discovery/ > > I am using book to help me plot what is happening using the social process > triangles as a screen. > > Take good care, > > Jeanette > _______________________________________________ > OE mailing list > OE(a)lists.wedgeblade.net > http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net > > >

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Margaret Wheatley book
by Karenbueno via Dialogue 18 May '17

18 May '17

Someone cited Margaret Wheatly's book, Leadership and the New Science, so I bought a used copy and read it. I think her thesis sentence is on P. 177: "We live in a world where order emerges out of chaos if people are free to make their own decisions based on shared meaning and values." The book I have is dated 2006, and it is the third edition, apparently. I wonder if she has written a new edition? Highly recommended to all! Karen Bueno.

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5/18/17, Spong/Forrester: Holy Wisdom; Spong revisited: Terrible Texts
by Ellie Stock via Dialogue 18 May '17

18 May '17

HOMEPAGE MY PROFILE ESSAY ARCHIVE MESSAGE BOARDS CALENDAR Holy Wisdom By Kevin G. Thew Forrester, Ph.D. Over these past several weeks, I’ve been reflecting anew on what it means to be a wise person. This is due in part because in the congregations I serve, we describe the spiritual journey of Holy Week as “The Wisdom Way of Christ,” exploring the stories and experiencing the reformed liturgies as a holy path for 21st century seekers. As human beings, we long for wisdom and it is extolled in poetry, song, and art. But what is wisdom, particularly in the spiritual tradition and how does it differ from what we might describe as the “wisdom of the world”? When we are held in our mother’s womb, we experience life for the most part as good enough. We are fed as needed through the umbilical cord. We are kept warm as needed through our mother’s thermoregulation. We float nestled in our amniotic sea, our tiny body suspended and trusting in the wise capacity of fluid Reality to provide. This trust is kinesthetic; we haven’t reasoned to it as a conclusion. We know trust as a somatic truth. We can see this bodily trust in ourselves as newborn infants, lying languidly in our mother’s arms. When we are hungry – mom feeds us. When our bowels are full – we relieve ourselves. When tired – our tiny being slumbers. Reality simply and sufficiently provides, and our infant’s sense of trust is visible in our relaxed mouth and eyes; in our tranquil arms lying loose upon our undulating and soft belly. We live with – no it is even more intimate – we live as a basic trust in the Wisdom of life to provide. With the slow passage of time, however, inevitable disruptions occur and this basic trust is gradually whittled thin. We hunger and are not fed enough or not in a timely fashion. We are cold or too hot. Our tummy is upset and no amount of holding is an effective remedy. We get a fever. As we become toddlers and venture forth, sometimes when we look back for mom or dad, they are not there. Or they are there but seem to be looking right thru or past us. We fall. We experience betrayal and loss. Life seems anything but wise. The hurts and bruises to body and soul continue to accrue and the whittling of basic trust continues. This relentless thinning of trust takes its toll upon our soul. We become convinced that our being’s survival depends upon the mind taking charge. A very specific delusion arises: since Reality seems all too unreliable, we will undertake the responsibility for directing our life’s, our soul’s, unfolding. Our breathing quickens as body and belly contract and harden. Our brow furrows as mind kicks into overdrive. Our pace of life shifts into third gear. Limbs tighten and withdraw. Life is no longer a mystery we receive, but a problem we must solve to survive. We become beings who mistrust Reality. We perceive ourselves as objects separate from and at the mercy of an arbitrary or even capricious external Force. By the time we are self-consciously aware persons, we simply take for granted as common sense this perceptual framework. Only a fool would trust, and we will not be fooled. And yet, we don’t know what work we ought to be about into order to surely and certainly direct our soul’s unfolding. Which path is the correct one? Do we turn left, or right? Do we go forward or backward? There is a desperate quality to our mind’s frantic search for the correct path; believing all the while that there is such a correct path. Our specific reaction to the loss of trust in Reality is to step into the perceived breach and become beings who plan – constantly. Within the delusion that we, as human beings, must direct and control our soul’s unfoldment, Wisdom devolves into wisdom-as-egoic-planning. Basic trust remains, but as a foggy somatic memory, and so we turn to the machinations of our own mind to control the vagaries of life and secure, as best we can, a course and outcome we prefer. We tire. We become disillusioned. We try even harder. And perhaps we begin to wonder: What does it really mean to live a wise life? To be a wise person? We experience the wisdom of the world, which has replaced Holy Wisdom with incessant human planning, as less and less convincing. On a simply practical level, ceaseless mental activity does not satisfy the human heart. What we don’t realize is that our personalities, or egos, in all their strategizing, are themselves a mimicking of an authentic soulful wisdom that lies dormant awaiting rebirth. There is much to be learned by understanding the life of Jesus as a story of the birthing of Wisdom, emerging in and through the same dynamics of those I’ve just described. Jesus is the child of a young woman in a small village, whose paternity is in question, and where tribal lineage remains vitally important. He is a Jewish child whose questionable status leads to being treated with suspicion, some ridicule, and perhaps more than a shadow of shame. A child raised in a holding environment that he could easily have experienced as dropping him on a regular basis; a child hurt and bruised and thus suspicious of the Wisdom of Reality. Here is a child that grows into an adolescent who could have readily questioned the tacit Wisdom of Reality. A boy who matures into a young man, likely drawn to the purported certainty embodied in the apocalyptic plans of the Essenes at Qumran; where the sons of light and the sons of darkness were believed to be preparing for the final spiritual battle. This is a budding Rabbi who is initially captured by the clear, bold, and prophetic plans of John the Baptist. When the basic trust of the soul is “lost,” the searing absence must be filled, and we do it, as best we can, with our egoic planning. We try to direct the soul’s unfolding because we don’t know what else to do and feel compelled to do something to survive. We are afraid to relax and be, precisely because of our history of pain and suffering. We pull back more and more into the small prison of the head. But – our hearts know there is more. Our hearts continue their search. We long to experience true rest in the home of our soul. The labyrinthine human journey, amazingly enough, can bring us right where we need to be. Taking charge is not bad and moral judgments are of no use here. The search leads us to waters of new birth, or rebirth. The soul’s question is whether Reality, washing over, in, and through us, moment-to-moment, is a really womb of life in which she might trustingly rest. It is no accident that the story of Jesus’ adult ministry begins with the account of his initial awakening in the waters of the Jordan. These waters are the ebb and flow of life; they are the current of Reality, which we fear will overwhelm and destroy us. Jesus steps into their depths. He releases his guarded heart to receive the flowing force of life full upon his soul. He chooses to be vulnerable. Although his person is not destroyed, the annihilation of his planning mind begins. How? His heart realizes that its very substance is Belovedness; Boundless Love is the fabric of Reality. Love is the womb of trust and relaxes our constricted heart and feverishly strategizing mind. In this trust, our chest and abdomen relax and soften, and our brow loosens its vise grip around our fearful eyes. We need to appreciate the vitality of the heart-mind connection. As our heart ceases to be a fortress guarded by all manner of defenses, it provides a soft, certain, and sure base upon which our mind may settle in ease. Constant planning is a heavy burden, which weighs down the spirit in darkness. The rebirth of basic trust allows our mind to lay open, allowing living daylight to suffuse the soul once more. The gospels convey this human truth in the lovely imagery of the heavens opening as Jesus realizes that he is the beloved of Reality. Thus, Holy Wisdom is born anew. This Wisdom has nothing to with planning. What is Holy about this Wisdom is that it reflects a loving Reality that does not work by some “divine blueprint”; no, Reality unfolds spontaneously, moment-to-moment. The work of spirituality is learning how to participate fully in this unfoldment; no one and no thing directs it. Holy Wisdom speaks of the objective truth that each and every manifestation of Reality is an expression of the Holy Mystery. Einstein asked whether the universe is for or against us. If that remains our question then the soul will never relax in basic trust. The more basic question – the answer to which is found only in our direct experience of Reality – is whether we realize that all that is is the Holy Mystery. What our soul longs to know is that Reality, like the womb of our mother, is itself a beloved Wise womb; a womb so Wise it embraces and holds our wounds and losses and even our body’s death; a womb so absolute that nothing escapes its Reality. This womb of Holy Wisdom draws our soul forth to live and work in trust, regardless of what befalls us. We don’t plan life, we participate in it, realizing that whatever path we are on is the only path that matters. Beloved, You are the deep and the shallow. You are the fertile as well as the fallow. You are the honey and the bitter. You are the fire as well as the winter. You are the center and the edge. And in truth all between. You are I am, and I am, too. I am your shadow and my soul lives as You. Resources on Holy Wisdom: A. H. Almaas, Facets of Unity: The Enneagram of Holy Ideas. Sandra Maitri, The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram: Nine Faces of the Soul. Kevin G. Thew Forrester, Beyond my Wants, Beyond my Fears: The Soul’s Journey in the Heartland. D.W. Winnicott, Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment: Studies in the Theory of Emotional Development. ~ Kevin G. Thew Forrester Ph.D. Read the essay online here. About the Author Kevin G. Thew Forrester is an Episcopal priest, a student of the Diamond Approach for over a decade, as well as a certified teacher of the Enneagram in the Narrative Tradition. He is the founder of the Healing Arts Center of St. Paul’s Church in Marquette, Michigan, and the author of five books, including “I Have Called You Friends“, “Holding Beauty in My Soul’s Arms“, and “My Heart is a Raging Volcano of Love for You” and “Beyond my Wants, Beyond my Fears: The Soul’s Journey into the Heartland“. Question & Answer Albert Gentleman from Pakse, Laos writes: Question: As a recent evolving Progressive Christian I have started reading Marcus Borg’s “Evolution of the Word”. Wonderful book. But as I was reading I noticed many scriptures that made reference to Jesus dying/sacrifice for our sins. Where did all these scriptures come from and when were they written? How do we understand them? Answer: By Fred Plumer Dear Albert, Yes, the idea the Jesus died for our sins, or sinful nature, is really one of the causes for so many people turning their backs on Christianity today. The truth is that the word atonement was hijacked my Paul primarily from the Book of Leviticus where it is used 52 times.(It shows up briefly in seven other books in the Old Testament) The Book of Leviticus was in large part a guide for Leviticus Priest who were expected to be very pure. However atonement is clearly an opportunity to clear one’s name if you have broken one of their rules. Over the years the Conservative Jews have adopted the rules of Leviticus to live by and in my opinion, fail to understand how the Leviticus Priest followed the law and how it was to be used. (This is another story.) Paul was a contemporary of Jesus but never knew him and frankly had huge battles with Jesus’ disciples. I suppose, Paul was trying to figure out why Jesus had to die and possibly came up with the idea that it was for the sins of society. This was a very different idea than the established use of atonement where only individuals could atone for breaking one of the Jewish laws. This could be satisfied by offering a sacrifice. But according to Paul, it was a done deal. Our sins are atoned when we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord. He did not believe, however, in the physical Resurrection. However, over the next 60-70 years as the other writers of the New Testament were developing their own versions of the Jesus story, all different by the way, some of them developed another idea. That was that we would “saved” by believing the Jesus story the way they told it. That included the bodily resurrection by a couple of writers. But none of the gospel writers believed that there was atonement of society or believers or for an unlawful act. You have to remember that the people of the Old Testament were living in a very different world than the people of the New Testament. Granted both had hard lives, however, Jesus does not speak of atonement nor was it part of Jewish life, except once a year during the holidays, for righting a wrong with a sacrifice in the Temple. That is why you have to read the stories with an openness and understanding of how they were living, what did the people know and what did they believe. That is why I focus first on understanding their conditions, their wants, and what information they had. They were still living on a flat earth, walked or rode donkeys wherever they went, most of them were terribly poor and lived in a very small area. However, Jesus managed to see beyond all of that. He did not agree with the Leviticus Priest, was not a big fan of the Temple and lived far away from the city. And, he never mentions atonement, nor did he believe in it, certainly not as the reason for his death. Now fast forward approximately 300 hundred years and the Catholic Church was born, under Constantine's watch. The Priests were masters of manipulation and battled to ultimately settle on something like the Nicene Creed or the Constantinopolitan Creed. Frankly, little has changed in “Rome.” Jesus dying for sins became the “law.” ~ Fred Plumer, President ProgressiveChristianity.org Read and share online here _________________________________________________ Bishop John Shelby Spong Revisited The Terrible Texts: Be Fruitful and Multiply and Subdue the Earth When I was a young theological student, I was assigned the task of reading a book entitled "Ideas have Consequences." I do not recall the author but the title has always impressed me. History is full of episodes that demonstrate its truth. The ideas in Adolph Hitler's "Mein Kampf" or Karl Marx's "Das Capital'surely had consequences. Ideas like those developed by Galileo opened frontiers in our ever-expanding world; while those arising in Osama Bin Laden' mind now terrorize the world. One religious idea that has had both profound and, I believe, destructive consequences occurred when the first human being defined God in theistic terms. By theism I mean the assumption that God is a Being, sometimes called the Supreme Being, supernatural in power, dwelling somewhere outside this world and periodically intervening in human history to accomplish the divine will. This understanding of God informs our language, scriptures, liturgies and hymns, and is omnipresent in our theology. To challenge this concept of theism is so threatening that most people assume that the challenge must originate in the godlessness we call atheism, which has been thought of almost exclusively as theism's only alternative. The way we human beings define ourselves has also been molded by this theistic definition of God. In the Judeo-Christian tradition it is stated that human beings were created in the "image of God." Interestingly enough, this reference is to a late developing idea in Jewish thought. Although found in Genesis 1:26-27, Genesis 5:1 and Genesis 9:16, these verses were all written during the Babylonian exile in the late 6th century as part of the priestly writer's editorial expansion of the Jewish Sacred Story. This means that they are among the last strands of Old Testament material to be woven into the Torah. Once this idea entered the text, however, it quickly won the day, and appears with frequency in the Psalms and the Wisdom literature. We defined ourselves as God's surrogates, God's stewards who were to exert dominion over all living things, both animate and inanimate. God was portrayed as handing over to those claiming the divine image, free reign to rule the earth that was created, we assumed, primarily for our benefit. We, who were but "a little lower than the angels," thus became radically anthropocentric. If it seemed to be in our best interests we could clear the forests, obliterate other species and use up the natural gifts of air and water because God had given us that right. If we destroyed the fragile ecosystem by over breeding, so be it. We live today with the consequences of these ideas. The resources of this planet are strained to the breaking point. The environmental disaster that threatens to end human life has been fueled by the theistic claim that God is external to our world and that we, who think of ourselves as created in God's image, can act as if we are also external to that world. Our right to breed irresponsibly has been supported by major parts of western religion. We do not seem to recognize that the resources of this planet are finite. We appear not to comprehend that the air we pollute is the same air that we breathe or that the water supply that industrial wastes make toxic is the same water we drink. We deny global warming even as we watch the polar icecaps melt. We are not creatures who are like God, somehow external to the world; we are part of nature itself. If our goal is to restore a balance to nature, then perhaps our first step must be to redefine God in non-theistic terms. This means that we must jettison any sense that the God we worship is external to the world we inhabit. The supernatural invasive deity has got to go. That is a threatening path to walk for religious people, but there is no other. To begin the process of overcoming that threat, we need to recognize that in the Judeo-Christian faith story, theism is the dominant but not the only definition of God. Perhaps it is fair to say that theism has been the more satisfying definition. It related us to a God who was our "all powerful protector." It helped us to develop our exalted sense of human importance. It built up our presumed security. There are, however, seldom-noticed images of God in the biblical story that portray God, not as an external supernatural creator, but as a divine presence in the midst of our world. This God image has never been as appealing because, rather than functioning a divine protector, this God is experienced as an immanent life force operating in and through us, calling us to take responsibility for our world, to be accountable for our actions, to exercise mature judgment and to escape our radical human self centeredness. This image produces for us a very different perspective on both God and ourselves but it might just be the idea we need to develop if we wish to escape the consequences of that potential genocide, which surely appears to be our destiny if the present pathway human beings walk is not altered dramatically and quickly. Is it possible that we have misread our own sacred story when we used the theistic definition of God to exclude all other possible God understandings? Is it possible that we have also misread our scriptures when we pretended that the well-being of human life is all that matters in this anthropocentric universe? Perhaps it is now time to look at those sources again in search of alternative images of God that might lead us to different conclusions? The creation story in Genesis portrays the creating presence of God as "Spirit". ~John Shelby Spong Originally Published September 2003 Announcements Beauty and Wisdom in the Qur’an by Jamal Rahman This online eCourse by Spirituality & Practice presents timeless insights and practices gleaned from reflections on verses of the Qur’an revealing its wisdom and beauty. The Qur’an verses will be illuminated by the insights of Islamic sages like Rumi and Hafiz who spent a lifetime meditating on the inner meanings of the Qur’an, by sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, and by teaching stories. May 29th - June 23rd. For more information/registration click here

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