[Dialogue] the local church / galaxy strategy
W. J.
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Sun Mar 9 19:13:49 EDT 2008
Who sez "the local church / galaxy strategy did not work"? Of course it works, the second someone breathes Spirit into the dry bones. I may have been a skeptic at one point, but I'm thankfully up to here in it at the moment, and the best news is: IT WORKS!
Just try showing Requiem for a Heavyweight to a bunch of churchmen, or try having a Spirit Conversation looking through the knothole at the Other World in one of Jesus' parables. You'll be amazed at how incredibly well this works.
And that's just the wakeup call (or awakenment). What happens after that is purely in the realm of released creativity.
What might not work too well is those endless strategic planning sessions with those endless local church tactics on 3 X 5 cards. Remember those?
Bottom line is: there are still local caring people all over and they're still in their cigar boxes, just waiting for...US. That is, if we still want to be US.
Some days I wonder whether we do, or whether we're just way too tired. Sometimes I get overtired too and slip back into serious recurring health problems, like the walking pneumonia and viral bronchitis--last week's diagnosis-- that got me hospitalized a quarter century ago, when I was a lot younger and had "normalized" way-over-the-top expenditure.
So for me now it's about how to take care of myself so I can continue the work of simply being a presence. I keep reminding myself that I'm not dead yet.
Marshall Jones
James Wiegel <jfwiegel at yahoo.com> wrote:
too bad the local church / galaxy strategy did not work. There would be ecclesiolas in every "cigar box with a steeple" at every cross roads and local caring people all across the country would have access to a deeper formation in what is going on than seems currently available re: depth study, reflection, conversation, etc.
John Cock <jpc2025 at triad.rr.com> wrote: Amen! to a fine editorial, Diann. Thanks.
But believe there is and will be more villainous, depraved, and vicious stuff coming than just slurs about racism, sexism, religionism, Christianity-ism, USA-ism, military-industry-ism, party-ism, and my-candidate-ism. Hate, divisiveness, and profiteering can't wait to get out of the box -- with campaign permission -- and go crazy.
Is this sort of evil potentially in all of us? Nah! Sounds like hard-core, die-hard, fundamental sin to me.
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From: dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of McCabe, Diann A
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 12:11 PM
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Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Fact Check re: Obama
Nicholas Kristof says what I had wanted to say:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/opinion/09kristof.html?th&emc=th
--Diann McCabe
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Sent: Fri 3/7/2008 1:57 PM
To: Diann McCabe
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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 17:45:53 -0500
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Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Fact Check re: Obama
Diann,
"Enlighten" is part of the problem. In my view a big part. If you read "The Political Brain" by Drew Westen, you will see that there is abundant data showing that people make up their reasons to support their prejudices. Ben Franklin said it well, "So convenient a thing it is to be a rational creature, since it enables us to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to." The guy who wrote "What's the Matter with Kansas" thought the way most liberals have thought for the last 40 years and that's why the Republicans have won most of the presidential elections. Obama gets it. I don't think Hilary does.
I've read several books on neuropsychology recently and they all find the same phenomenon. In fact one neuroeconomist found that the standard "rational man" assumed by economists only applies to autistic people. That's why the so many economics Nobels lately have gone to people who have been disproving traditional economics assumptions. Economics turns out to be a philosophy pretending to be a science. "Adam's Fallacy" is also a good read.
The people who "put this stuff out" are using the fear 'frame' to win elections. If we continue to assume voters are going to be rational, they will continue to win elections.
Karl
Yes, it's disturbing that whoever is putting out this stuff assumes that a "Muslim" is someone to be feared and loathed. We have much work to do to enlighten people about how we as "Christians" have many, many connections to the Islamic faith.--Diann
On 3/6/08 1:29 PM, "facilitationfla at aol.com" <facilitationfla at aol.com> wrote:
Thanks, Del,
Yes, this is disgusting. Another paper (similar to National Enquirer) had a front page headline last month: "Obama's hidden ties to Al Queda". Last week -- again on the front page it had a photo of a grizzled white guy with the headline, "I slept with Obama". I went to the Publix store manager and told him he shouldn't be selling such trash in our community.
Cynthia
This appeared in the newspaper February 28. I just hadn't had a chance to send it on until now.
FACT CHECK
Some of the rumors and allegations about Barack Obama are clearly not true, yet still spread, often anonymously.
1. A debunked chain e-mail circulating widely suggests he is hiding his Islamic roots. It says he was sworn into the Senate on the Quran and turns his back on the flag during the Pledge of Allegiance. Actually, he took his Senate oath with his hand on a family Bible, and he says, "Whenever I'm in the United States Senate, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America."
2. Another false report says he attended a Muslim madrassa as a child in Jakarta. Obama was born in Hawaii and moved to Indonesia when he was 6 to live with his mother and stepfather. He returned to Hawaii when he was 10 to live with his maternal grandparents. Interviews last year by the Associated Press at the elementary school in Jakarta found that it is a public and secular institution and has been open to students of all faiths since before Obama attended in the late 1960s.
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From: Del Morrill <del at hypnocenter.com>
To: Order Ecumenical <OE at wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 1:56 pm
Subject: Fact Check re: Obama
This appeared in the newspaper February 28. I just hadn't had a chance to send it on until now.
FACT CHECK
Some of the rumors and allegations about Barack Obama are clearly not true, yet still spread, often anonymously.
1. A debunked chain e-mail circulating widely suggests he is hiding his Islamic roots. It says he was sworn into the Senate on the Quran and turns his back on the flag during the Pledge of Allegiance. Actually, he took his Senate oath with his hand on a family Bible, and he says, "Whenever I'm in the United States Senate, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America."
2. Another false report says he attended a Muslim madrassa as a child in Jakarta. Obama was born in Hawaii and moved to Indonesia when he was 6 to live with his mother and stepfather. He returned to Hawaii when he was 10 to live with his maternal grandparents. Interviews last year by the Associated Press at the elementary school in Jakarta found that it is a public and secular institution and has been open to students of all faiths since before Obama attended in the late 1960s. (from the Associated Press)
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