Thanks, Ken! On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM Ken Fisher via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Realistic Living – Journal of Religion & Ethics / 1984 - 2024
With Gene turning 93 on January 3rd, and Joyce turning 91 on February 19th,
Gene Marshall, Joyce Marshall and Alan Richard – Say “Goodbye”
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Dear RL,
With the reading of the last issue of RL, I am deeply moved.
On the map of the Other World - Land of Mystery, I am immersed in state #1, “It just cannot be that way.”
With love, loyalty, and admiration, Ken
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From Issue #82, the final issue, Gene writes about meeting JWM in ’53 and getting involved with the Christian Faith and Life Community. In ’62, after Army Chaplaincy, he, Ruth and children 8, 6, and 4, joined the Order Ecumenical to be part of its public face, The Ecumenical Institute: Chicago.
Realistic Living Theologizing is the cover article of this last issue.
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Here, he shares his 70+ year journey with the five luminaries, the ‘hand of god’ that became the giants of the New Reformation, the theologizers of the NEW, New Testament.
Thumb – Søren Kierkegaard, moving European philosophy and Lutheranism into existentialism.
Finger #1 – Rudolf Bultmann, pointing to each word and metaphor in the New Testament existentially. Experiencing our limits as luminescent.
Finger #2 – Paul Tillich, restoring a non-moralistic, non-dogmatic, existential sharing of the experience of sin & grace, estrangement (SK’s despair) and healing.
Finger #3 – Dietrich Bonhoeffer, gifting us with the communion of saints as “life together"; and the Holy Spirit as second-by-second living and creatively responding to the tension of indescribable obligation & freedom.
Finger #4 – H. Richard Niebuhr, illuminating the inherited visible church and the phenomena of ‘those who care’, the invisible church.
Incorporated in 1984, the Realistic Living Journal has been a wonderful source of Joyce Marshall’s book and movie reviews. She has been a strong proponent of Eco-Theater.
Over the past 15 years, resident scholar Alan Richard Ph.D. has been responsible for all aspects of RL.
Built on the work of the five luminaries, Gene has published 10 books - the context of which now includes feminism, ecology and climate change, (Gene invented the word, 'eco-democracy') electoral politics, the enigma of consciousness, and Christian life and practices. His latest is “Approximate Knowing – The End of our Dogmatic View of Religion.
His commentary on Mark is a profound journey into original Christian consciousness.
The Creator of Christianity - Progressive Christianity & Realistic Living <https://realisticliving.org/blog/mark-commentary/> realisticliving.org <https://realisticliving.org/blog/mark-commentary/> <https://realisticliving.org/blog/mark-commentary/> <https://realisticliving.org/blog/mark-commentary/>
Believe me or not, I also found excitement in the July ’24, issue #81. May Gene’s genius never end.
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Gene maps “All that is.” In the upper left, using the latest descriptors, he gives words to The Inanimate, the stuff through which all being is expressed. Happy to find ourselves in The Animate, with Survival and Sensuality in Layers of Aliveness.
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In ’74-’75, I spent six months with Gene in The Academy.
In August of 2011 and 2012, I attended RL’s Leadership Training and Symposium event.
Forever inspired, Ken
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