[Dialogue] Did NOT WORK????

KroegerD at aol.com KroegerD at aol.com
Tue Mar 11 13:03:28 EDT 2008



 
In a message dated 3/10/2008 8:18:10 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
abatica at hotmail.com writes:

Folks,

Wiegel will always be part of the Church.  I think  we need to "re-chart" and 
discuss the Niebuhr paper, and one more  time...de-mythologize "church".  
BTW, who has an extra copy of the  paper?

Addi
in Minneapolis


 
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From: KroegerD at aol.com
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:32:19 -0400
To:  dialogue at wedgeblade.net
Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Did NOT WORK????

If there is a  "renewed" church in the Minneapolis area, I'd like to know the 
 name.
 
Dick  Kroeger
 
 
In a message  dated 3/10/2008 7:59:25 A.M. Central 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

Richard Alton  <dick_alton at hotmail.com> wrote:  
Margaret, you must be right! The only  problem with Jim is that he is not in 
a church!  Dick


Richard H.T. Alton International  Consultants and Associates 'building global 
bridges' 166 N. Humphrey  Ave, Apt, 1N Oak Park, IL 60302 T:1.773.344.7172 
richard.alton at gmail.com  Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back Babe  
Ruth


 
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From: aiseayew at netins.net
To:  dialogue at wedgeblade.net
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 20:06:59  -0500
Subject: [Dialogue] Did NOT WORK????

Jim, surely you did not say that.   Some one of those fundamentally sinful 
people John mentioned  commandeered your computer, right?
 
I just finished a four meeting  strategic planning with my smallest 
congregation.  There are only  fifteen members.  We met with never more than seven at a 
session  through blizzards, ice storms, blizzards and frigid cold.  Only  one 
member (and myself) were at every session.  Ten of the  fifteen were there 
for at least one session.  They struggled with  vision, but they really got into 
the contradictions and concluded that  they were not out to declare the Word 
with every activity of the  church and that they had not embraced the new 
challenges of their  diversity.  This was in adddition to confessing that they 
were  tired and skeptical of a plan that might demand more than they had  left to 
offer.
 
I could talk about the authenticity of  this process and struggle for hours.  
I couldn't be more  proud.  We decided on two new events, a regular study 
that will  last six weeks starting after Easter and two Family Fun Saturday  
afternoons that will reach out to the whole neighborhood.  We'll  evaluate in six 
months and see where we are.  That they managed  to move off the dime is 
miraculous.  That the church has been  their sustenance for centuries, that they 
are still sustaining it and  waiting, willingly praying is equally  miraculous.
 
The journey to Jerusalem never  ends.  We are once again on our way to 
Jerusalem and I have been  asking for most of a lifetime of myself and others if we 
were ready,  truly ready for the crucifixion. This last week I was so sick 
with the  flu and trying to take a relationship to Lazarus' story that it felt  
like a mighty intervention of the father himself and his question  has been, 
Are we ready for the  resurrection?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: _James Wiegel_ (mailto:jfwiegel at yahoo.com)   
To: _Colleague Dialogue_ (mailto:dialogue at wedgeblade.net)   
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 12:30  PM
Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Fine  editorial


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
To: dialogue at wedgeblade.net
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_ 
(http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/opinion/09kristof.html?th&emc=th) 
 
 

--Diann McCabe
 
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From: McCabe, Diann  A
Sent: Fri 3/7/2008 1:57 PM
To: Diann  McCabe
Subject: FW: [Dialogue] Fact Check re:  Obama



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From:  Karl Hess <khess at apk.net>
Reply-To: Colleague  Dialogue <dialogue at wedgeblade.net>
Date: Thu, 6  Mar 2008 17:45:53 -0500
To: Colleague Dialogue  <dialogue at wedgeblade.net>
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.  




-----Original  Message-----
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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