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Fwd: Tr : 12 Free Video Clips on Celebrating Black History Month 2013
by Al Lingo 05 Feb '13

05 Feb '13

Thought these film clips would be of interest to many on this list. Al Lingo clingojr(a)aol.com -----Original Message----- From: Sisters of the EIAB <sisters(a)eiab.eu> To: Al Lingo <clingojr(a)aol.com>; Sr. Peace <pvbelovedcommunity(a)gmail.com> Sent: Tue, Feb 5, 2013 1:24 am Subject: Fwd: Tr : 12 Free Video Clips on Celebrating Black History Month 2013 - Free Video Clips Celebrating Black History Month | View in Browser Dear G.a. Van Hengel, These 12 clips have been specially excerpted from some of our most popular History and Professional courses and are collected here as a way for you to better understand the history of slavery, the roots of abolition, and the culture of racism in America; more fully appreciate the depth of Dr. King's legacy and viewpoints; and define and dissect the three parts of Martin Luther King Jr.'s, pivotal "I Have a Dream" speech. Watch these video clips and learn more about Black History Month. Feel free to forward this email to friends and family who might also enjoy them. As always, thank you for being our customer, and we hope you continue to enjoy The Great Courses. Your passion for learning is our reason for being! Sincerely, Brandon Hidalgo President and CEO The Great Courses Contributions to Politics/Cultural Change The History of How Slavery Began in America Discovering the Roots of Abolitionism Was Slavery the Real Reason for the Civil War? The Culture of Racism in 1950 Martin Luther King Jr.: Progressive Viewpoints on the Vietnam War Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail Impact of Martin Luther King Jr. Setting the Stage: "I Have a Dream" Speech "I Have a Dream": Defining the 3 Parts of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Pivotal Speech "I Have a Dream": Dissecting Part 1 of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Pivotal Speech "I Have a Dream": Dissecting Part 2 of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Pivotal Speech "I Have a Dream": Dissecting Part 3 of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Pivotal Speech The Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. 1-800-832-2412 | www.thegreatcourses.com | Policy | About Us You have received this email because you are a valued Great Courses customer. Your email address is never rented, sold, or lent to anyone else. Period. These emails are meant to help you stay current on the newest Great Courses, our latest sales, and the free gifts we periodically distribute via email. If you prefer not to receive these emails, click here to unsubscribe Browse our website at www.thegreatcourses.com to view our full catalog of more than 400 courses and learn which courses currently are on sale! If you prefer to call in to order, please mention priority code 81147 to get these low prices. -- “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land European Institute of Applied Buddhism Europäisches Institut für Angewandten Buddhismus, Schaumburgweg 3, 51545 Waldbröl Germany www.eiab.eu sisters(a)eiab.eu +49 (0) 2291 9071373

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China NG and World map
by Jaime R Vergara 04 Feb '13

04 Feb '13

If anyone in this listserv is willing to part with their copy of their National Geograpic CHINA inside the dragon (special issue with accompanying map), and their NG world map (and all other wall maps that might still be in the basement or attic), I will be in Honolulu until Feb. 22 and would not mind using your copy for pedagogical purposes in Lioaning, China at the Shenyang Aerospace University where I teach. Here are two addresses: (Hawaii and China) JAIME VERGARA 91-2059 Pahuhu Pl Ewa Beach HI 96706 or, Friendship Villa 1106 No. 7 Daoyi South Ave., Daoyi Development District Shenyang, Liaoning, CHINA 110136. Thanks. j'aime la vie Yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today, participate. In all, Celebrate!

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The Newkirk family
by Lynda Cock 03 Feb '13

03 Feb '13

_____ From: Lynda Cock [mailto:llc860@triad.rr.com] Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2013 6:00 PM To: 'ljknutsen(a)gmail.com' Subject: The Newkirk family Dearest Newkirk family: Linda, Patricia, Jim, David, Lisa and families, The letter from Linda via Carol Crow really rocks our being as we were completely unprepared for this kind of news about your mother. Diane and I had hoped to make a spring trip to WDC to visit dear colleagues and to visit our old haunts. Sadly, any trip now will be too late to visit with Helen. We send our heartfelt care and sympathy to you all at this sad but sacred time of saying good-byes to an amazing woman of service, strength and determination, a dear colleague, and your wonderful loving mother and grandmother. The past year for us has also been a journey toward "home" with our dad. He died this past August a couple months after his 98th birthday. Your stories of traveling sound so familiar to what we experienced with Dad. Along with "Are we there yet?" and other traveling stories, one of my favorites was his saying to me that he didn't know what to wear in heaven, followed by his telling me that I could find some brand new underwear in his chest of drawers that he wanted to put on now. Thank you, Lord, for laughter in the midst of our deep sadness. We were assigned to the Washington, DC house about 1972. Bill and Helen and Lisa were continuing on another year there and greeted us with much fanfare and celebration. I can hear Helen and Bill's great cheery chuckles as they showed us around assuring us that we were in a great place. The Religious House at that time was in the old Carmelite Monastery on Rhode Island Avenue. The damp cracked plaster in the basement was covered with burlap, creating a warm collegium space along with the colorful felt symbolic banners. We were in the middle of the Local Church Experiment then, and had lots of visitors who were always welcomed warmly and graciously. I remember the wonderful homey meals that Helen oversaw for us. She was a marvelous cook whose cranberry meatloaf is a trade mark of her specialties of making even our simple fare look inviting and taste delicious. The Religious House was right next door to a big cemetery and in a rather run down part of town. One afternoon Lisa went up to their upstairs apartment to find a young men there going through things and with her flute in hand. My memory is that Lisa gave him a swift kick and grabbed her flute as he jumped out the window onto the porch. Many folks would have packed up and left after that kind of incident, but Helen and Bill took it right in stride as one of the kinds of things that could happen when one decided to live among the downtrodden. Lisa demonstrated her strength and courage there also. The Religious House was packed with families and children which Helen with her great Motherhood experience, cheerfully and graciously understood. We spread out and opened the Richmond House and the Baltimore House with our gifted staff of persons who were great recruiters, cooks, enablers and teachers of RS-I and children's RS-I. Helen and Bill's gracious presence and standing in WDC always opened doors for the ICA in higher places, which was a great help as we began looking for a bigger and more suitable location for our Religious House in the nation's capital. What a team they were. We are so grateful for the time we spent with them. They were truly the people of the Yes to the Way Life Is. I know that same spirit is carrying Helen now as she continues her transition and transformation into pure spirit. We celebrate her life/their lives so freely given in service to the world. We hold you all in our hearts as you begin to release her to the Great Beyond during these last sacred days with her. With care and gratitude for our families' journeys together. Lynda Cock (and John) Greensboro, NC

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"Journey Reflection" January 2013 Top-viewed Blogs
by Lynda Cock 01 Feb '13

01 Feb '13

Dear colleagues, Following are the top-viewed January blog posts: <http://rejourney.blogspot.com/2013/02/journey-reflection-blog-review-januar y.html> January 2013. We appreciate your blog suggestions and comments. Warm and reflective wintering to you. Lynda and John >Daily Blog "Journey Reflections" on ... Google: www.reJourney.blogspot.com <http://www.rejourney.blogspot.com/> Google Plus: JR on Google <https://plus.google.com/u/0/114307312715975337692/posts> Plus Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/transcribebooks Twitter: https://twitter.com/transcribebooks >Web Page: www.transcribebooks.com <http://www.transcribebooks.com/> >Amazon Author (+books): http://tinyurl.com/n467ka

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I just found a fascinating new book, The Shift Age by David Houle
by Paula Philbrook 01 Feb '13

01 Feb '13

One article said he was the "most important futurist the 21st century. Has any one else run into his thinking or writing? This is a link to his presenting memes-where he thinks we are headed- http://www.memebox.com/futureblogger/show/609-david-houle-s-three-forces-of… You might have to copoy and paste. Paula Sent from my iPad

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1/31/13, Spong: Malcolm Warnock 1905-2012
by Ellie Stock 31 Jan '13

31 Jan '13

HOMEPAGE MY PROFILE ESSAY ARCHIVE MESSAGE BOARDS CALENDAR Malcolm Warnock 1905-2012 He was a remarkable man, a superior lawyer and one who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. He had many, many friends and I was privileged to be one of them. I knew him for 35 of his 107 years. More than that, I knew him in some deeply personal settings. I walked with him as his wife Dorothy sank into a state of unknowing. It was the onset of her dementia that caused him to move with her into a setting where she could be cared for and he could be near enough to share time with her every day. The sad thing was that increasingly she was not aware of that care that was constant and deeply loving. Malcolm would go to her room each day to visit, to sit, to eat a meal with her, to play the piano and even to sing to her in the hope that something of his love and concern would be communicated. I will never forget him singing “Annie Laurie” to his uncommunicative wife. I also knew him as an energetic and vigorously competitive tennis player. Malcolm and I played doubles as part of a tennis foursome every Friday morning for almost 20 years. Malcolm was clearly the best of our six players – six because schedule conflicts made two regular substitutes necessary. Whoever teamed with Malcolm generally won. Malcolm is the third of those six players at whose funerals I have been privileged to speak. In effect, Malcolm forced me to retire from tennis, because when he defeated me consistently when he was over 92, I knew I had no future in this game. I knew him as a devoted member of Christ Church in Short Hills, New Jersey. He was a sidesman – that is Christ Church, Short Hills, vocabulary for a lay reader or chalice bearer. He was also the regular narrator at their Christmas Pageant. Though active in his church, Malcolm was an uncomfortable Christian. That is, he was uncomfortable with traditional, ecclesiastical thinking and ecclesiastical language. He knew how to separate the authenticity of his own God experience from the explanation placed on that experience by the ecclesiastical institution – explanations that were to him always both time bound and time warped. So he sat loosely to creeds, to liturgical forms and to doctrinal concerns. In this, Malcolm and I found common ground and became kindred spirits. He was also an avid reader of every book that I wrote over the course of our friendship. Many times, I seemed to articulate in my writing the religious concerns he always had. Yet he was faithful and persistent in his constant quest for truth and for insight, even for that truth and insight that are so often lost in creedal formulations. It was this intellectual and even theological interest that was the glue that bound us together over the years. When our Friday morning tennis court time was up we would sit around a table over coffee and have what was frequently a mini-theological seminar. Over the years, many topics were covered and some of those discussions would find their way into the content of my writing, but without footnotes attributing the ideas to Malcolm. When tennis became a thing of the past with both of us, we still met once or twice a year for dinner and an evening of conversation together. Those times took place primarily in the dining room of the institution in which he was living. They would begin regularly with hors d’oeuvres and drinks served in his room before we would go downstairs for dinner. As the years rolled by those meals became only an annual event. We celebrated Malcolm’s birthday together every June from the time he turned 100 until his 107th birthday this past summer when we saw him for the last time. He was bright, alert and ready to tell us about what had become an annual ritual in which he was honored at the Princeton University graduation as their oldest living alumnus. Malcolm held that title and even set a record that is longer than anyone else in Princeton’s history. He outlived every Princeton alumnus in at least the seven years following his graduation. It was at his 100th birthday dinner that my most indelible memory of Malcolm occurred. He greeted his guests, dressed in his tuxedo, wearing an imposing Abraham Lincoln type top hat on his head, and with his children and grandchild at his side. Christine and I were honored to be among the few non-family members present at this gathering. By this time, I was long retired, but I continued my book writing career and Malcolm had continued to read and to comment on my work. When I published what I presumed was to be my last book entitled, Jesus for the Non-Religious, a title that appealed to Malcolm and with which he identified, I turned my attention to a long held passion of mine to explore the meaning of the claim that we Christians make that death is not the end of our personhood. When we went to this 100th birthday dinner, I had begun what was to be some massive reading of all aspects of this vast subject. I was certainly not sure that this study would ever result in a book, but I knew I would enjoy the exploration. In the course of that 100th birthday gathering, near the end when people were preparing to leave, Malcolm turned to me and out of the richness of our past conversations said, “Well, Jack, what are you working on now?” I responded, “Malcolm, I am trying to find a doorway that will allow me to talk about life after death in such a way that a scientifically trained citizen of the 21st century could respond without turning off his or her brain.” I thought that Malcolm at age 100 might have some existential interest in this subject. I was not prepared for his response. He broke into a loud and a sustained laughter that left me standing with the quizzical smile of one who is slightly embarrassed. I was trying to brace myself for whatever his verbal response might be, but feeling somewhat vulnerable. When he finally ceased his laughter, he replied, “That is the silliest thing I’ve ever heard of you trying to do.” Before I could say a word, he went on to pose what he saw as my problem. “Who are you going to interview for this project?” he asked. “Where are you going to do your research into this subject? Your passport may get you to China” he continued, “but it will never get you to the place where that question can be studied.” Finally, he concluded his comments by saying: “If this turns into a book it will be the shortest book of your career. It will have three lines: 1. Nobody knows, 2. Nobody can find out, 3. The End.” When he finally fell silent and I had a chance to pick myself up off the floor, I offered Malcolm two points in reply. First, the fact is that this subject, which might be called both “the unknown and the unknowable,” has never stopped human speculation. The greatest libraries of the world contain countless volumes in which learned men and women have sought to explore humanity’s ultimate limit and the source of humanity’s deepest anxiety. Some of those volumes have become classics in the literature of the western world. One thinks of Dante’s The Divine Comedy, John Milton’s Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained or Paul Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, for example. More important, however, I told Malcolm, I did not in this project plan to engage in speculation into the unknown. I rather planned to approach life after death through the medium of life itself – about which a great deal can be known. Can I go so deeply enough into the meaning of life that I can touch the limits? Can I discover the edge of humanity where it appears to enter the divine, where time ceases and eternity begins and where the barriers that surround life fade away and we discover that there is a universal consciousness in which we all participate? If I can do that, it will be through that means that I will approach the subject of life after death. Although still skeptical, Malcolm at least began to understand that I was not on a mission to affirm the pious claims of traditional religion or to defend the popular ecclesiastical definitions of God, who seemed to use life after death as a method of behavior control or even to affirm the reality of those now empty realms that we have in the past called heaven and hell. When my study did lead to a book that was published in 2009 under the title Eternal Life: A New Vision: Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven and Hell, I took a copy of it as my gift to Malcolm when we attended his 104th birthday party and later received from him his imprimatur. Malcolm approved of that book because of who Malcolm was and how Malcolm lived. The only way I know how to approach the subject of eternity is to live fully in the present. The only way I know to discuss timelessness is to engage deeply and fully the gift of time that we now have. The only way I know how to approach the idea of divinity is to be fully human now, expanding all limits, transcending all barriers. I understand God as the Source of life empowering me to live fully; as the Source of love enabling me to love wastefully; as the Ground of Being giving me the courage to be everything I am capable of being. So it is in living fully, loving wastefully and being all that I can be that I experience the presence of God and it was, I am fully convinced, this same God experience that caused the followers of Jesus to view him as one in whom and through whom God was present. So they said of Jesus: “God was in Christ.” What this phrase was seeking to communicate is that somehow, in someway, through some means, they saw the presence of God in the fully alive, wastefully-loving Jesus. This was the God that Malcolm also understood and this was the God with whom Malcolm lived. He worshiped this God of life, love and being by living fully, by loving wastefully and by being all that he could be. To Malcolm, God was not a being to be pleased, so much as God was a verb to be lived. He was a remarkable man. I am glad I knew him. I am confident that in his life he crossed the barrier where time enters eternity, where the human enters the divine and where the consciousness of the universe begins to include the consciousness of this incredible man. ~John Shelby Spong Read the essay online here. Question & Answer George Gardiner from Green Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada, writes: Question: You are of the persuasion that Jesus was deserted by his disciples. Do you believe that is “literally” true? Does that mean you are “literally” selective of the Bible as you accuse the fundamentalists of being? My feeling is this: no matter what we do or accomplish in the “physical” realm ultimately we will make that final journey alone. Regardless of the number of people who are “present” or have taken up “our” cause, we face death one on one. P.S. I hold your work and world view in very high regard. Thanks very much for that and all that you have done for me and those like me. Answer: Dear George, It is not quite as you seem to imagine. I don’t treat anything in the Bible as literally true, for most of it is interpretive material not the work of eyewitnesses. This is especially true of the gospels that are written 40-70 years after the crucifixion and in Greek, a language that none of his disciples spoke. That hardly makes for a literal text. Not to be literal, however, does not mean that the substance of the text is not true. The first gospel, Mark, is quite clear that when Jesus was arrested, all of the disciples forsook him and fled (see Mark 14:50). The later gospels temper that in various ways to whitewash this apostolic abandonment. Mark even has Jesus quote Zechariah (Strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered) to justify their abandonment. One does not do that unless the abandonment was real. By the time the gospels were written, the disciples were heroes. Yet the fact of their abandonment was so deep in Christian memory that it could not be omitted, so it was explained and justified as the fulfillment of scripture. Those are the things that have convinced me that the abandonment of Jesus by the disciples is a fact of history. I hope this clarifies your question. Thanks for writing. John Shelby Spong Announcements New events added to the Bishop Spong Speaking Calendar! Like this one: Title: “Eternal Life: A New Vision – Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism. Beyond Heaven and Hell” Apr 12-14 2013 Center for Faith Studies at Countryside Community Event: Friday-Sunday Sat. 9 a.m. Lecture (Registration 8 a.m.) 11 a.m. Lecture Sun. 9 a.m. Worship 11 a.m. Worship followed by Talk Back Session United Church of Christ 8787 Pacific Street Omaha, NE 68114 Contact: Cyndi Kugler Tel: 402 391-0350 x 121 E-mail: cyndik(a)countrysideucc.org Visit the Bishop Spong Speaking Calendar 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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Email address Change
by Suemi Clark 31 Jan '13

31 Jan '13

Please change my email address to suemiclark(a)gmail.com Thank you, Suemi T. Clark

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Monthly Gathering
by George Holcombe 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

We had a great time at the monthly ICA/OE Austin gathering last night. besides the usual suspects, Mike Shaw visited, and the McCabes gave an excellent visual presentation to Indonesia and their old assignment in Bon Toa. George Holcombe 14900 Yellowleaf Tr. Austin, TX 78728 Mobile 512/252-2756 “...we have the choice: we can gratefully cultivate the relationships that make us part of a vast network, or we can take them for granted and allow them to wither and die.” Brother David Steindl-Rast, Deeper than Words Sent from my iPad

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I miss Chicago
by Joan 28 Jan '13

28 Jan '13

Thought for some of you on this list, it might bring back memories. Joan In Mesa Arizona the other day and I saw a bumper sticker on a parked car that read, "I miss Chicago." So, I broke the window, stole the radio, shot out two of the tires and left a note that read, "I hope this helps!"

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Monthly Gathering
by George Holcombe 27 Jan '13

27 Jan '13

We had a great time at the monthly ICA/OE Austin gathering last night. besides the usual suspects, Mike Shaw visited, and the McCabes gave an excellent visual presentation to Indonesia and their old assignment in Bon Toa. George Holcombe 14900 Yellowleaf Tr. Austin, TX 78728 Mobile 512/252-2756 “...we have the choice: we can gratefully cultivate the relationships that make us part of a vast network, or we can take them for granted and allow them to wither and die.” Brother David Steindl-Rast, Deeper than Words Sent from my iPad

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