I am truly grateful for our life together as Order: Ecumenical and our many and serious attempts to renew the local congregation. But these attempts failed. I find Gene Marshall's analysis most useful - "the institutions were old wineskins that could not hold the new wine."

As many of you know Gene was/is teaching an updated RS-1 called CR-21 Christian Resurgence for Century Twenty One.  Given the failure of church renewal, his call is for a Resurgent Christianity.  Bishop Jack Spong still hopes the current church can be radically reformed. More and more I find myself with Gene.

As I tried to write down stories from the two Galaxies I was part of it could not be done save the context of the attempt and its failure were clearly there so no one would be misled.

Upon returning as a member to the church whose cadre we once led I find no vestiges of the Galaxy efforts. No experimental worship, many mission efforts but none seriously challenging the social institutions, no experiments in Christian community.

Besides individual congregations here and there, are there efforts toward a Resurgent Christianity that should be known? Can they be replicated and become a movement? How are you all thinking about this?

Zoe Barley 
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Denver Colorado 80206
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