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No Subject
by R Williams 18 Mar '13

18 Mar '13

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No Subject
by R Williams 18 Mar '13

18 Mar '13

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Directory
by Karenbueno 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

Are there any directories left! I realized I didn't get a request made and a check written! Please advise. Karen Bueno

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3/14/13: A New Plan for Good Friday
by Ellie Stock 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

HOMEPAGE MY PROFILE ESSAY ARCHIVE MESSAGE BOARDS CALENDAR A New Plan for Good Friday Reclaiming Good Friday as a major focus of both Lent and the Christian story will be at the center of my life this year, when I spend that day in Richmond, Virginia, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. This is the church I served as Rector from 1969-1976 and it is a church to which I am still deeply and emotionally connected, even some thirty four years after leaving that position. St. Paul’s is a downtown, business center church located literally in the heart of Richmond, the capitol of the state of Virginia. It is surrounded by financial institutions, utility companies, insurance companies, hotels and a sports and convention center. It is literally across the street from the state capitol building, the Governor’s mansion and a statue of America’s first president, a Virginian named George Washington. Underneath St. Paul’s Greek revival building is a three-level parking garage that serves the city commercially from Monday to Friday, while serving the needs and convenience of St. Paul’s members on evenings and weekends. Richmond’s history includes the time when this city served as the capitol of the Confederate States of America and along Richmond’s Monument Avenue are statues of Confederate heroes. St. Paul’s also played a major role in that moment of American history and was deeply identified with the Confederacy. It preserves that part of its history today by noting with appropriate markers the pews in which Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis once sat as worshipers. After the Civil War and the imprisonment of Jefferson Davis, the Rector of St. Paul’s, Dr. Charles Minnigerode, was one of the few people allowed to visit the former president. Dr. Minnigerode thus became “the voice of Jefferson Davis” to the wider public during Davis’ years of incarceration and was thrust into being a figure of significant importance in the city and throughout the South. The rector of St. Paul’s became, thereby, a voice to which people listened in the city by dint of his office alone. Of the thirteen rectors that have served St. Paul’s since its birth, five have been elected bishops in such varied places as Pennsylvania, Ohio, Arkansas, New Jersey and Arizona. On an average day in the work week, within a six block radius of St. Paul’s an estimated 100,000 people will be at work in their offices. So through the years, St. Paul’s has offered noonday services, concerts and forums, to which many in this working population have been drawn. This ministry is uniquely focused during the season of Lent, when a noontime half-hour preaching service is held during the forty days of that season. A luncheon is served in St. Paul’s before and after the service, which requires more than 300 volunteers a week, to enable people to attend worship and have lunch within the span of an hour. People from a wide range of Christian traditions come to these services and the daily attendance will range from 100 to 700 people. This noontime pattern is still replicated in a few other downtown churches in cities across America, but it is a shrinking number. Despite this midday Lenten preaching tradition, however, the observance of Good Friday, the climax of the Lenten season, has recently fallen into general neglect, even at St. Paul’s. The traditional pattern of the past was a three hour service scheduled from noon to 3:00 p.m., designed to mark the time when Jesus was believed to be dying on the cross. In recent years, this service has declined to the place where it has almost disappeared, being replaced by a much less demanding and shorter liturgy. With the fading of Good Friday, the climax of the season of Lent has disappeared, leaving most American Christians with a much more shallow celebration of Easter as one of the inevitable results. This year, St. Paul’s in Richmond decided to try to reverse that trend. A church in the heart of a vibrant downtown filled with people at work might be able to revive this tradition and thus serve all of the suburban churches, where fewer and fewer people are present during the hours of the working day. If successful, a church in the heart of every city in America might follow suit. So these are St. Paul’s plans. First, the three-hour service is planned as a series of six thirty minute self-contained units, making it possible and convenient for people to come and go from work on the hour or half hour. While some will attend the entire three hours, most will fit their Good Friday observance into their workday schedules. Second, each of the thirty minute services will include concert level Passiontide music. The magnificent adult choir of St. Paul’s and its gifted organist and choir master, David Sinden, will present a series of chorales or motets from the St. John Passion by J. S. Bach, as well as the work of other composers like Thomas Tallis and Felix Mendelssohn. Soloists will be featured in these musical presentations. To attend a significant Good Friday concert in the heart of the city will be one of this service’s primary attractions. Third, the Bishop of Virginia, the Rt. Rev. Shannon Johnston, will preside over the entire service, assisted by the Rev. Wallace Adams-Riley, the current rector of St. Paul’s. The presence of the Bishop gives the service a larger appeal beyond the boundaries of St. Paul’s congregation. Fourth, the people reading the lessons in each of the six segments will be drawn from the public life of both Richmond and Virginia. The first reader will be a former governor of Virginia, who guided the state away from “massive resistance to the law of the land,” which was Virginia’s original response to the desegregation order by the Supreme Court in the case of Brown vs. the Board of Education in 1954. He led this state beyond the attitudes that had produced slavery, segregation and the racism of the Old South into a new day of social harmony and racial cooperation. He and his family made their witness in a deeply personal and public way. Interestingly enough, in the light of today’s politics, he was and is a Republican. The second reader will be an African-American woman who served on the City Council in those difficult days of transition and whose leadership locally was instrumental in enabling the new and modern city of Richmond to be born. The third reader will be the wife of the last governor (a Democrat) and thus was the First Lady of Virginia from 2005-2009. In her own life, she embodies the transitions through which both Richmond and Virginia went and she helped to develop a new consciousness. The fourth and fifth readers will be two women who represent careers which were not open to women in previous generations. One is a priest and spiritual director. The other is a Senior Vice President at Wells Fargo Bank, working in the area of philanthropic services. The final reader will be the current Senior Warden of St. Paul’s. He is the CEO of a major hospital in Richmond. He is also an African-American, the first African-American to be the lay head of this church, once known as the “Cathedral of the Confederacy.” Each of these readers will be an expression of hope and a symbol of the new America that is being born. My role in this service will be to deliver six meditations, one in each of the six thirty minute services. As we live through these three hours, I will seek to invite people into the meaning of the Passion story as it was told by the author of the Fourth Gospel that we call John. Specifically, I will try to move the Christian Church away from that threadbare Good Friday format of the past that focused on what was called “The Seven Last Words from the Cross.” Those “Words” were never anything more than an attempt to force the gospels into a blended narrative, which makes a mockery out of current biblical scholarship. The overwhelming probability is that the dying Jesus never uttered any one of these “seven last words.” The absolute certainty is that he never uttered all of them. Mark, the first gospel to be written (70-72), has Jesus speak only one “word” from the cross, that is: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Matthew, the second gospel (82-85), followed Mark’s lead and recorded only that same “word” from the cross, nothing more. We know that this “word” is the first verse of Psalm 22, a psalm which the early Christians used to narrate the story of the cross. Even the earliest story of the crucifixion we now know was not an eye witness account, but was rather an interpretive piecing together of a series of Old Testament texts of which Psalm 22 was a major contributor. By the time Luke wrote the third gospel (88-93), the idea that Jesus felt forsaken by God was offensive and so Luke replaced it with a much more positive and confident final saying: “Father into thy hands I commend my spirit.” That is a far cry from “My God, why have you forsaken me.” Luke also added two other sayings, one supposedly spoken to the soldiers: “Father forgive them for they know not what they do” and one supposedly addressed to the penitent thief: “Today you will be with me in Paradise.” When John, the final gospel, was written (95-100), he dismissed all of the previous “words” recorded in the earlier gospels and added three new ones never heard of before: “Woman, behold your son; son, behold your mother;” “I thirst,” and “It is finished.” “The Seven Last Words” thus represent a forced unity that the gospels never had and they are, we now know, quite inauthentic. My hope will be that in future Good Friday services the Passion story will be developed according to Mark one year, Matthew the next year, Luke the third year, John the fourth year and then continue the rotation. The authenticity of the individual gospel accounts will thus be restored to Good Friday. I hope this service sets an example that brings a new biblical understanding of the Passion of Jesus and that it restores Good Friday to a central place in the Church’s life. Above all, I hope it will drive us away from Easter bunnies and Easter Parades down 5th Avenue as the meaning of Easter and into the experience of the resurrected life itself. ~John Shelby Spong Read the essay online here. Question & Answer Bill Russell from Orchard Park, New York, writes: Question: Given that most of the events in the gospels’ accounts of the last week of Jesus’ life are, as you suggest, myth and metaphor based on Old Testament passages, what do you think was the origin of the “Lord’s Supper”/Holy Communion”/the “Eucharist?” Answer: Dear Bill, Let me first expand on your stated assumption that you seem to attribute to me, namely the accounts of the last week of Jesus’ life were nothing more than myths and metaphors based on Old Testament passages. The early Christians interpreted Jesus in the light of their conviction that he fulfilled their expectations of the Hebrew Scriptures in regard to “the one who is to come,” but they had an experience with a person of history for whom this interpretive process was employed. Behind the narrative in the gospel in regard to the crucifixion was the fact that a person named Jesus actually lived in history and was in fact crucified by the Romans. So the story is not all myth and metaphor, though both myths and metaphors have always been used as an interpretive means by which we seek to get to the heart of the “Jesus experience.” There is little doubt in my mind that the origin of the Lord’s Supper, the Eucharist, or the Holy Communion was an adaptation of the Jewish Passover for Christian usage. The Passover was a liturgical interpretation of the moment that witnessed the birth of the Jewish nation in the experience of the exodus from Egypt and out of slavery. The Eucharist was a liturgical re-enactment of the birth of Christianity born out of the transformative experiences that we call the crucifixion and the resurrection. The breaking of the bread and the blessing of the cup of wine in the Passover were newly understood and expanded into the symbols of the broken body and the shed blood of the crucified one. To eat and drink these symbols was to interpret his death as the doorway to life. Almost inevitably these symbols were literalized and began to represent the entry of the worshiper into the resurrected life of Jesus or, more specifically, the entry of the worshiper into the life of God, which pointed the worshiper toward a kind of mystical union of the human with the divine. The early Christians gathered to break bread in the name of the resurrected one and to remember what his death meant as the moment of their transformation. Today, eating together remains a symbol of community and eating together to celebrate a special event in life like a birthday or an anniversary is still the way we keep the community’s memory alive. I treasure the Eucharist. I do not literalize it. I think every occasion of sharing food brings lives closer together. I rejoice in both. ~John Shelby Spong Announcements Click here to watch the 12-12-13 interview with Bishop Spong on Viewpoint about the next Pope Any questions or concerns, please contact us at support(a)johnshelbyspong.com or 503-236-3545. Copyright © 2013 ProgressiveChristianity.org, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you have a membership at our website. Our mailing address is: ProgressiveChristianity.org 3530 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Unit 1 Portland, OR 97214 Add us to your address book

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A Book of Interest
by R Williams 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

Colleagues, Several days ago I requested recommendations for education materials to work with local people on "why" sustainable living matters, as opposed to "what" it is and "how" to do it. I am grateful for the response I received and want to return the favor. On the same subject (maybe one of you first recommended this to me) I found a book, authored in 2011 by Frances Moore Lappe, entitled EcoMind: Changing the way We Think, to Create the World We Want. In the book Lappe exposes seven "thought traps" that she suggests are limiting an effective response to the crises we face in matters of the environment, social and economic justice, and our political (democratic) processes. For those of you who are working in any or all of these areas, check out this book to see if you might find it informative, as I have. Her approach, evident in the title, is to bring about significant change through the change of hearts and minds, i.e. "the way we think." If you should read it I would be grateful if you would share your reflections. Randy "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." --Buckminster Fuller

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ICA GreenRise Uptown Building
by Terry Bergdall 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

On Wednesday, Lesley Showers, ICA-USA's Facilities Manager, and I attended an event where the Mayor marked the expansion of the City's Chicago Retrofit Commercial Building Initiative. The "ICA GreenRise Uptown Building" -- which some of you remember it as "Kemper" -- received official recognition (see link below). A full page ad in Chicago newspapers showcases GreenRise with the other buildings (see attached). http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/mayor/press_room/press_releases/… The significance of this multifold. First, it opens the door for pro bono assistance organized by the City to support our efforts to build a green culture at 4750. This includes the creation of a major monitoring system for the upcoming solar project on our roof. They understand GreenRise to be a pilot for other nonprofits. Second, this occurred largely because of the reinforcing strategies of our city-wide neighborhood work with "Accelerate 77" and our leadership development program with universities. As I think many of you know, over 220 students were involved last year in the doing the crucial field work for A77. (If this is news to anyone, let me know I'll elaborate.) The synergy of GreenRise, Accelerate 77, and university partnerships advance our strategy of becoming a high profile, reputable, nonprofit player in our hometown of Chicago. This is crucial for building a durable institutional home so that national and international programs of transformative change can continue far into the future. Nothing less, of course, is worthy of our history. Take care, Terry

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A Good time to Support ICA endeavors
by George Holcombe 11 Mar '13

11 Mar '13

During all the economic and political turmoil of the past several years, the Institute of Cultural Affairs held its own. The staff have worked long hours on critical issues such as energy efficiency and climate change, school readiness, and international HIVAIDS initiatives. They have provided exciting new ToP learning opportunities and have continued to improve ICA’s Service Learning programs preparing a next generation of leaders. They have gained recognition for their environmental work in Chicago and beyond. We "old hands" have had opportunities to participate in all of this, both making the wisdom of our past useful and involved in creating the future of what we started. All this has been supported by generous personal gifts from colleagues to help sustain our Annual Fund and mission. Did you know, Raymond and Tina have once again pledged to match all new and increased gifts up to $40,000 in 2013. For those who do regular contributions, we have a chance to increase our impact with an extra gift. If you have not made a contribution to ICA's work, here's an opportunity to get in the game. Wanda and I hope that all of us will be able to respond. Thanks, George Holcombe 14900 Yellowleaf Tr. Austin TX 78728 Mobile 512/252-2756 grholcombe(a)gmail.com "Whatever the problem, community is the answer. There is no power greater than a community discovering what it cares about." Margaret Wheatley

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FW: Congratulations to our zero-waste honorees...
by Lynda Cock 09 Mar '13

09 Mar '13

In response to Randy's request and the many green efforts going on around the world, I was intrigued by the grant competition from Green America. Small potatoes for big projects like the Greenrise's amazing steps forward, but great for small projects. When I saw the compost article below I though of Ken Otto's early efforts with the worm garden that got our attention many many years ago. The electric bicyle cart reminded me of the work that L E Philbrook did for a little car for India during the Nava Gram Prayas days. Do we have a picture of that? Grateful for the pioneers and those continuing to follow with their dedicated experiments, like Pam's banana tree in the bathroom and the hydroponic experimental gardens in the windows. I'm looking forward to being at the Archive Project in April (7-12) and experiencing all the changes that have been wrought. 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Re: [Oe List ...] ICA GreenRise Uptown Building
by beretgriffith＠charter.net 09 Mar '13

09 Mar '13

It is exciting to see the building gaining "official" recognition. Work in The Archives during April will be even more exciting! Beret On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 3:46 AM, Terry Bergdall wrote: > On Wednesday, Lesley Showers, ICA-USA's Facilities Manager, and I > attended an event where the Mayor marked the expansion of the City's > Chicago Retrofit Commercial Building Initiative. The "ICA GreenRise > Uptown > Building" -- which some of you remember it as "Kemper" -- received > official > recognition (see link below). A full page ad in Chicago newspapers > showcases GreenRise with the other buildings (see attached). > > http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/mayor/press_room/press_releases/… > > The significance of this multifold. First, it opens the door for > pro > bono assistance organized by the City to support our efforts to build > a > green culture at 4750. This includes the creation of a major > monitoring > system for the upcoming solar project on our roof. They understand > GreenRise to be a pilot for other nonprofits. Second, this occurred > largely > because of the reinforcing strategies of our city-wide neighborhood > work > with "Accelerate 77" and our leadership development program with > universities. As I think many of you know, over 220 students were > involved > last year in the doing the crucial field work for A77. (If this is > news to > anyone, let me know I'll elaborate.) > > The synergy of GreenRise, Accelerate 77, and university > partnerships > advance our strategy of becoming a high profile, reputable, nonprofit > player in our hometown of Chicago. This is crucial for building a > durable > institutional home so that national and international programs of > transformative change can continue far into the future. Nothing less, > of > course, is worthy of our history. > > Take care, Terry > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > OE mailing list > OE(a)lists.wedgeblade.net > http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net

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Re: [Oe List ...] ICA GreenRise Uptown Building
by PSchrijnen＠aol.com 09 Mar '13

09 Mar '13

Congratulations Terry to you and all involved.... Best wishes, Paul Paul Schrijnen 13 Bloemfontein Avenue London W12 7BJ +44 7973 206 766 skype: paulus.schrijnen In a message dated 09/03/2013 10:46:43 GMT Standard Time, bergdall2(a)gmail.com writes: On Wednesday, Lesley Showers, ICA-USA's Facilities Manager, and I attended an event where the Mayor marked the expansion of the City's Chicago Retrofit Commercial Building Initiative. The "ICA GreenRise Uptown Building" -- which some of you remember it as "Kemper" -- received official recognition (see link below). A full page ad in Chicago newspapers showcases GreenRise with the other buildings (see attached). _http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/mayor/press_room/press_releases… cesretrofitchicagocommercialbuildingsinitiat.html_ (http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/mayor/press_room/press_releases/… nuel_announcesretrofitchicagocommercialbuildingsinitiat.html) The significance of this multifold. First, it opens the door for pro bono assistance organized by the City to support our efforts to build a green culture at 4750. This includes the creation of a major monitoring system for the upcoming solar project on our roof. They understand GreenRise to be a pilot for other nonprofits. Second, this occurred largely because of the reinforcing strategies of our city-wide neighborhood work with "Accelerate 77" and our leadership development program with universities. As I think many of you know, over 220 students were involved last year in the doing the crucial field work for A77. (If this is news to anyone, let me know I'll elaborate.) The synergy of GreenRise, Accelerate 77, and university partnerships advance our strategy of becoming a high profile, reputable, nonprofit player in our hometown of Chicago. This is crucial for building a durable institutional home so that national and international programs of transformative change can continue far into the future. Nothing less, of course, is worthy of our history. Take care, Terry _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE(a)lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net

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