[Dialogue] Thoughts on ICA-USA Future

[R Williams]

Jack,
 
Great start to what I hope will be an extended conversation among many of us!  Two questions come quickly to my mind.  What are we talking about when we say ICA-USA--an institution with a small professional staff and a volunteer board--or what--and what are we talking about when we throw in ICAI, the other national ICAs and the colleagues across the country who want some kind of formal affiliation?
 
Second, what now is the Order to which you refer?  You suggest it is "we" who, though dispersed and without form or structure, are/were covenanted together.  In other places you refer to "our" work.  Some have gone so far as to suggest there is no "we" and "our."  Assuming however that there is, what is the articulation of the covenant which binds us now, and how shall we include those who have no experience of the Order of the past but are now so indispensible to us?
 
I believe these are among the many questions with which we all need to wrestle, which have to do not with theoretical or intellectual definitions but with practical implications for our strategic approach in the immediate and long-term future.
 
Randy

--- On Sun, 9/12/10, Jack Gilles <icabombay at igc.org> wrote:


From: Jack Gilles <icabombay at igc.org>
Subject: [Dialogue] Thoughts on ICA-USA Future
To: "Order Ecumenical Community" <oe at wedgeblade.net>, "Colleague Dialogue" <dialogue at wedgeblade.net>
Date: Sunday, September 12, 2010, 1:09 PM



Dear Colleagues,

Attached is a document on my thoughts regarding the future of the ICA-USA now that it has a Board of historically knowledgeable colleagues and a new Director in Terry Bergdall.  I'm not sure this really needs to go to both list-serves, but I'm doing so.  I'll let Terry and the Board decide if and how they would like to structure dialogue on this topic.

Peace,

Jack







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