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In a message dated 3/10/2008 6:00:55 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
rcwmbw at yahoo.com writes:

Where do  we find the "church" (ala Niebuhr) today?  It is seems not  to be, 
with some noteworthy exceptions, the cigar boxes with steeples,  and I am "in 
a church" to use Dick's words.   Randy
 
Dear Randy (et al),

I was very excited by a lecture I attended last week at a local community  
college in Visalia, CA.  It was sponsored by the U.U. fellowship and was  titled 
"Thank God for Evolution!"  It was an evangelically-styled telling  of the 
Universe Story by Rev.Michael Dowd.  Check out _www.TheGreatStory.org_ 
(http://www.TheGreatStory.org) .  He quotes  Bryan Swimme a lot, as well as Thomas 
Berry.  You can download his book of  the same title ("Thank God ...") free.  I 
bought 4 DVD's, which he urged us  to copy and distribute.  He uses lots of 
images from  Hubble photos.  His blog is at ThankGodForEvolution.com.  
 
>From another  DVD cover:  (_www.EvolutionaryChristianity.org_ 
(http://www.EvolutionaryChristianity.org) ):
"A passionate and unabashedly all-embracing, ecological, deep-time honoring  
and prophetic/evangelistic celebration of the Christian tradition that honors  
Roman Catholic, Protestant, Evangelical, Anabaptist, Universalist and New  
Thought expressions."
 
He and his wife, scientist Connie Barlow, don't have a home.   They live on 
the road doing this work.  Several of us  from our  local Presbyterian Church 
went, and we'll be showing and discussing the  DVD's to more of our 
congregation.
 
I do think the "church" (ala Niebuhr) can be found in this kind of  
consciousness-raising work.  Much longer than history, much wider than the  world.
 
Mourning doesn't really become me, but it is going along, and involves so  
much more than wearing a certain color.  The whole world, to me, keeps  
fluctuating between flat shadows and brilliant freshness.  The wildflowers  are 
absolutely breathtaking around here.
 
Blessings,
Jann  McGuire  



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