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Re: [Oe List ...] Georgianna McBurney
by LAURELCG＠aol.com 05 Jun '13

05 Jun '13

Prayers for Georgianna are flowing forth. Jann In a message dated 6/5/2013 7:10:15 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, mellowmilan(a)verizon.net writes: Our dear friend, mentor and colleague Georgianna McBurney, of Malibu, California, suffered a stroke yesterday morning and is in hospital in Santa Monica in intensive care. In her doctor's words she has a very large "cranial bleed" which they are trying to control. We will send more information on her condition as soon as we get it Milan Hamilton aka Mellowmilan 80 North Center Street Redlands, CA 92373-8116 Phone: (909) 793-4482 Email: mellowmilan(a)verizon.net Blog: www.mellowmilan.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE(a)lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net

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Re: [Oe List ...] Georgianna McBurney
by LAURELCG＠aol.com 05 Jun '13

05 Jun '13

Prayers for Georgianna. Thank you, Milan and Linda for demonstrating your love for her through the years, including a movie outing in March that I was so happily in on. Her spunk was evident despite limitations. Jann In a message dated 6/5/2013 7:15:54 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, jfknutson(a)aol.com writes: Bless her heart! Thanks for letting me know. Joan -----Original Message----- From: Milan Hamilton <mellowmilan(a)verizon.net> To: 'Order Ecumenical Community' <oe(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> Cc: ORDER LISTSERVE <oe(a)wedgeblade.net> Sent: Wed, Jun 5, 2013 7:10 am Subject: [Oe List ...] Georgianna McBurney Our dear friend, mentor and colleague Georgianna McBurney, of Malibu, California, suffered a stroke yesterday morning and is in hospital in Santa Monica in intensive care. In her doctor's words she has a very large "cranial bleed" which they are trying to control. We will send more information on her condition as soon as we get it Milan Hamilton aka Mellowmilan 80 North Center Street Redlands, CA 92373-8116 Phone: (909) 793-4482 Email: _mellowmilan(a)verizon.net_ (mailto:mellowmilan@verizon.net) Blog: _www.mellowmilan.blogspot.com_ (http://www.mellowmilan.blogspot.com/) _______________________________________________ OE mailing list _OE(a)lists.wedgeblade.net_ (mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net) http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE(a)lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net

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Salmon:Assistance, please
by William Salmon 04 Jun '13

04 Jun '13

Colleagues-- The following email introduces a pastor friend who is an United Methodist Pastor who takes assignments around the world to teach. Should you know of leads, please contact him. Thank you very much. Inner Peace, Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: David Upp To: wsalmon(a)cox.net Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 9:29 AM Subject: Post-Conference Greetings Dear Bill, It was good to see you at Conference again. Thanks for your leadership! My search for places to teach (globally) continues. I have a tentative plan for this semester (into December), so I'm also trying to plan into 2014 so that I'll have less "down-time" between teaching appointments. Any suggestions or contacts you have toward that end would be most welcome! I usually teach Bible/NT/Greek, but I was also Head of Church Ministries/Practical Theology Department while in Fiji. I admire your focus & energy! -David Upp No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3343 / Virus Database: 3184/6382 - Release Date: 06/04/13

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Re: [Oe List ...] Roger Shinn
by LAURELCG＠aol.com 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

Thank you, Marshall. It's a beautiful obituary. I picked up an interesting 25-cent book, Generations: the History of America's Future, published in 1991. The "greatest generation" is passing so quickly now. We "Silent (Adaptive)" ones (b.1925-1942) are on our way out also. Our generation never had a president. The presidency went from G.I.'s (Civic) to Boomers (Idealist) (b.'43 -'60), since Mondale and Dukakis didn't cut it. Obama is in what the authors call the Thirteenth (Reactive) generation (61 - 81). I can see why the book was on the quarter shelf. 1991 was a long time ago. Wonder if there's a similar study that's newer, since this one only projected to the Millennials, born up to 2003. Blessings, Jann In a message dated 6/2/2013 7:00:27 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, synergi(a)yahoo.com writes: Some of us were among his students many years ago. I thought you'd like to read his NYT obit. Marshall http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/us/rev-dr-roger-l-shinn-theologian-dies-at -96.html _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE(a)lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net

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Marge's 85th
by Bill Parker 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

Marge, 85 is a remarkable year to celebrate! Your life was just starting when the economic disaster of this country was occuring and we thought we had learned the lessons essential to make sure it did not happen again. You have seen the world convulse and heal, fall and get back up, war and peace, poor and rich, chilling hatred and uplifting love. I count it a profound honor to consider you a colleague and one upon whose back the future is being built. May this celebration of your 85 years only invigorate you for many more years. Bill Parker

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Fwd: OpEd Wednesday
by Jaime R Vergara 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

I thanked Randy W. for his last reflection on Spaceship Earth. It was the familiarity of the terrain that found us in the same ball park. I repackaged it for my Saipan audience. For the curious, am sending this copy to the listserv. j'aime la vie Yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today, participate. In all, Celebrate! -----Original Message----- From: Jaime R Vergara <jrvergarajr2031(a)aol.com> To: jayvee_vallejera <jayvee_vallejera(a)saipantribune.com>; mark_rabago <mark_rabago(a)saipantribune.com>; editor <editor(a)saipantribune.com> Sent: Mon, Jun 3, 2013 6:00 pm Subject: OpEd Wednesday Spaceship Earth The late Buckminster Fuller latched on to the metaphor ofthe Earth as a spaceship hurling in an elliptical motion around aninsignificant star, the Sun, in a corner of a minor galaxy, the Milky Way. This emerging consciousness of what since fully evolved intoan environmental movement was aided by the powerfully evoking picture of theplanet taken by Apollo astronauts of a blue orb rising from the lunar horizon,now dubbed the "earthrise". Spaceship earth showed no political boundaries that our map-orientedminds took for granted, and the definition of nation-states that visa-separatedone earthling from another. I would later gaze at a fabulous Mactan sight with my eldestdaughter noticing how marvelous the sunset was until she said, "Dad,that's an earth turn!" In the 60s, we were a youngish theolog gathered around acoal-fired furnace with members of a Faith and Life Community House near thecampus of the NC-Greensboro U in the Piedmont when the earthrise imagerose. Steeped in the medieval traditionof gazing up unto Heaven, but increasingly getting lucid about theEgyptian-inherited practice of Rah-veneration as totally irrelevant to anearth-centric existence, we were pleased to replace Zeus of Olympus and Deus ofthe Roman pantheon with the old YHWH of Moses, and the Tao of Lao Tze, the Way Life Is. In 1962, Rachael Carson penned disturbing Silent Spring that revealed extensivepoisoning of North American air and aquifers caused by agrarian pesticides,insecticides, and fertilizers. That ledto the banning of DDT, a common chemical in many households. We were a guest camp counselor in Maine for the UnitedChurch of Christ in the summer of '67 at a lake in Litchfield near Augusta whenwe encountered the DDT residual effect on mosquitoes. The State tried to eradicate the crittersearlier with widespread spraying of the chemical. It resulted in a resilient breed that buzzedlike mini-drones and stung like Mohammad Ali's bees! We returned to Manila as an effete religious social activistwith a Caucasian spouse ready to battle the forces of evil in the comfort ofecclesiastical garb at Ferdinand Marcos rather riotous watch. He declared Martial Law in '72, though notwithout the assent of the US State Department, and quietly toasted by themerchants of war materials, as the move purportedly was cooked around amilitary camp in Korea. Clark Air ForceBase and the US Naval Base at Subic Bay were at the time Pentagon's hub in theFar East. Right about the same time, the Club of Rome issued its Limits to Growth that highlighted thereality of the demand-and-supply equation as not infinite. Earth as a supplier of natural resources isnot limitless, so demand had to be more intentional. Serendipitously, we joined an intentional community ofreligious clergy and laity the day Marcos declared martial. For a decade, a corporate body sought toexpress their intense faith in the trustworthiness and goodness of life byfearlessly plumbing with their lives the profound depth of life's mysteries,deriving intense height of ecstasy from unconditional human expenditure, donewithin a comprehensive view of history and prophecy, (genesis to apocalypse),focusing on the human factor in world development. A tall order, it was, but an engaging one inthe new dispensation of politico-ecological awareness that was coming to vogue atthe time. We resided in Canada in 1976 when we staffed our NGO at theVancouver United Nations Conference on Ecology. Marshall McLuhan of the Medium-is-the-Message fame is often quoted assaying: "There are nopassengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew." As a secular-religious in the 60s, we were only too aware ofthe boundaries of fragility, the intimations of our mortality, and the nuancesof our finitude, but we were not yet ancient, and we soldiered on for a decadeof relentless prodding the wealth of the human psyche around the world. The UN's Bruntland Report of 1987 got our mission code intopublic discourse. The report defined"sustainable development" as meeting the needs of the present withoutcompromising future generations. Itidentified three pillars: economic growth, environmental protection and socialequity. Economic growth continues today oblivious of a limitlesssupply of resource. The earth consumes150 percent of its regenerative capacity. Definitely not sustainable. Theprotest on the Keystone pipeline and northeast fracking of fossil fuelextractive industries challenges the nation's political union, reveals the reachof the oil political lobby, and questions the very nature of Wall Streetitself. Citizen's participation againstMonsanto's chemically aided farming reached the global stage this week. Entropy is the law existence. Spaceship Earth is a singular trip, aone-time-only journey, and mine is but a measly 87-yr segment of it, not even ablimp in the HDTV of life. I am but acrewmember, albeit, of a cancerous global brain. Still, I aim to ride this baby with gusto,knowing that while intentionality may falter, the journey is what journeys on! Hi-ho, tally-ho, around the sphere as it careens into thestars! Oblivion will occur, mine and later, thespaceship. Meanwhile, Gaia journeys on. j'aime la vie Yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today, participate. In all, Celebrate!

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For Marge at 85
by Gordon Harper 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

Well -- In addition to the many good things people are being cajoled into saying about you, Marge, one thing that strikes me is how much yourlife has been at the center of making critical resources available to all of us. We've been onquite a technological journey--and it's one that you've helped us takeas a community. In the late sixties, I remember we had the image of the briefcase libraryand those precious few essential books we'd be able to pack in it and carry with us to our next assignment. Given my own considerable literary holdings, I always found that a terrifying image of radical detachment. In the seventies, you and Phil fomented a giant leap forward for us, based on that portable microfiche reader and library of cards you created for it. Now wehad scores if not hundreds of our key documents, able to be read (albeit dimly on those awful screens) with the twist of a dial on a mechanism that could, like the briefcase library, be carried in one hand. Iremember my envy of those who were able to pack one of those with them as we left Chicago en route to our global postings. But you didn't stop there. In the early eighties, personal computers burst upon the scene, and suddenly we found ourselves gifted with the Golden Pathways CD. You and your team produced an unbelievably rich compilation of what we'd done over the previous twenty years--and there it was, all on a slim and shiny disc, at our finger tips and the click of a mouse. Another quantum jump for all of us that you helped make happen. Again, here you are, nearly thirty years after that, still at the heart of our now vastly expanded archival collections in Chicago. You're the one likely to respondwhen any of us requests a copy of some item from those rows of file cabinets. Beyond that, you're at the center of a team using the latest web and Internet tools to make those materials widely availableto future generations. Talk about a sustained commitment! So, thanks, Marge, in the midst of these technological revolutions, for all the ways that you've drawn on them to contribute so much to our common life. You also give the lie to that adage about old dogs. Blessings, and a happy 85th -- Gordon and Roxana

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Re: [Oe List ...] Singing Revolution
by LAURELCG＠aol.com 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

I will if I can find my copy. Jann McGuire In a message dated 6/1/2013 9:04:07 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, svesjaime(a)aol.com writes: Will someone in this listserv consider donating their copy of "The Singing Revolution" of Estonia to a China library? If yes, send it to me in Hawaii: Jaime Vergara 91 2059 Pahuhu Pl Ewa Beach HI 96076 Thanks. j'aime la vie Yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today, participate. In all, Celebrate! _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE(a)lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net

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Roger Shinn
by W. J. 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

Some of us were among his students many years ago. I thought you'd like to read his NYT obit. Marshall http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/us/rev-dr-roger-l-shinn-theologian-dies-a…

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Re: [Oe List ...] Singing Revolution
by LAURELCG＠aol.com 02 Jun '13

02 Jun '13

Go ahead, Mary Ann. Mine may be in a box in the garage. I'm also downsizing. Jann In a message dated 6/1/2013 9:46:39 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, ma-wainwright(a)charter.net writes: Hi Jaime, If Jann is unable to find her copy, I have my copy sitting right here, and will gladly get them to the mailing place on Monday. Any chance you could use two sets? We are seriously downsizing and always look forward to sharing any of our worldly possessions, even as small as CDs! Mary Ann Wainwright From: _LAURELCG(a)aol.com_ (mailto:LAURELCG@aol.com) Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2013 12:07 PM To: _oe(a)lists.wedgeblade.net_ (mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net) Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Singing Revolution I will if I can find my copy. Jann McGuire In a message dated 6/1/2013 9:04:07 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, svesjaime(a)aol.com writes: Will someone in this listserv consider donating their copy of "The Singing Revolution" of Estonia to a China library? If yes, send it to me in Hawaii: Jaime Vergara 91 2059 Pahuhu Pl Ewa Beach HI 96076 Thanks. j'aime la vie Yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today, participate. In all, Celebrate! _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE(a)lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net ____________________________________ _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE(a)lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE(a)lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net

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