I did a talk based on the God seminar to a mixed crowd in JB recently. It was a stripped down 7 minute version. Didn't mention God at all - just TWLI. I was curious to see how people would react - it was recieved well. Someone later told me that he thought "there was a lot of material there" that could be developed further. Dharmalingam
________________________________ From: George Holcombe <grholcombe@gmail.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Cc: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@wedgeblade.net>; Colleague Dialogue <dialogue@wedgeblade.net> Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2013 7:25 PM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] What Happens If You Give the God Lecture Today?
Excellent, as I recall my high school graduation, the speech was all about our being the hope of the future.
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On Aug 24, 2013, at 3:04 AM, Gordon Harper <gharper1@mindspring.com> wrote:
Well --
In this case, the poor soul here in Seattle who tried it (no, twas not I) got roundly booed andsome people in his sizable audience tried hard to shut him downbefore he was through it.
I'd heard about David Guterson's experience delivering the commencement address this year at his former Seattle high school. Only recently, however, did a friend send me a copy of it to read myself. (You may recognize Guterson's name as the author of the novel, Snow Falling on Cedars.) Ifound his talk so deliciously outrageous as a graduation speech that I have to share it.
Those who were most outraged and expressed it so vocally were in the parentsand family memberssection; it seems the graduates were at least polite and attentive during it. Its ending is weak (IMHO), and of course there was no following Christ lecture the next morning. Still, if one ever wanted a current rendering of our Friday night event, this might come close --
Gordon
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