[Oe List ...] to Nancy L on Synchronicity

[John-Rupert Barnes]

Dear Nancy, re synchronicity, just last week I was
passing Isaac's former travel agent office here in
nairobi and was wishing I could get back in touch with
him, please send me his contact w copy to him.

Thank you also for your very frank response to my
witness, which I no0w find hard to believe I could
have had the brashness to write!

Grace and peace, J-R (or Mutiso which I now usually
use)


--- Nancy Lanphear <nancy at songaia.com> wrote:

> Dear Ones,
> 
> Isn't it amazing how synchronistic life is?  I
> discover daily that our 
> circles of life connect with others in most wondrous
> ways!
> 
> Last week Fred received an email from Isaac Kariyuki
> from Nairobi.  
> Isaac was one of the young men in Kawangware that
> was so full of energy 
> and fun.  He is now an evangelist living in the
> south east with his 
> wife and 3 children.
> 
> A few years ago I received a letter from another
> young man who then 
> lived in Western Kenya and was a teacher.  He was
> the son of Joram who 
> at one time was the manager of the Urban Farm
> Program in Kawangware.  
> Joram had died at a relatively young age but his son
> had found my name 
> in his father's journal and had written to let me
> know about his father 
> and to send greetings to us.  This young man must
> have been a child 
> when we lived in Kawangware but I do not remember
> him.   We 
> corresponded a couple of time but them I lost track
> of him.
> 
> Take care and remember that you are loved.
> 
> Nancy
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Feb 7, 2007, at 12:32 PM, chagnon at comcast.net
> wrote:
> 
> > Lucille Chagnon here...
> >      Several years ago I asked if anyone knew if
> Hillary Clinton had 
> > attended an RS-I when she was a teen, something I
> had heard about as a 
> > possibility from colleagues way back.  I don't
> know if it was in 
> > response to that that David Reese sent a long
> e-mail about a meeting 
> > of EI colleagues with Rev. Don Jones, Hillary's
> mentor, near Mary 
> > Coggeshall's NJ home.
> >     This week's Newsweek has an article, which I
> copied below, about 
> > Hillary and her mentor, complete with mention of
> E. E. Cummings and 
> > Tillich.
> >     I had kept David's e-mail and I copied that
> below the Newsweek 
> > article.
> >
> > --------------------
> >
> > Newsweek        February 12, 2007 issue, page 30  
>  
> >
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16960621/site/newsweek/
> >
> > Hillary's Religious Roots
> > At 13, she met a Methodist minister who became a
> lifelong friend.
> >
> > By Susannah Meadows
> >
> > If Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush have
> anything in common, it is a 
> > deeply rooted wariness of outsiders. Both the
> president and the woman 
> > who hopes to succeed him have always relied on a
> small, closed circle 
> > of friends and advisers who have been with them
> for years. So it's not 
> > surprising that there are so many familiar faces
> on Clinton's new 
> > campaign team. Ad maker Mandy Grunwald, pollster
> Mark Penn, strategist 
> > Ann Lewis and others are loyalists from Bill
> Clinton's White House.
> >
> > There is another person on Hillary's shortlist of
> confidants who goes 
> > back farther than any of them, but whom you've
> probably never heard 
> > of. The Rev. Don Jones, a Methodist minister who
> is now 75, was 
> > perhaps Hillary's earliest spiritual and political
> mentor. She has 
> > written of her "lifelong friendship" with him. It
> was Jones who first 
> > awakened young Hillary to the civil rights
> movement and counseled her 
> > on questions of faith. They continued to be in
> touch as Hillary became 
> > a national figure. Years later, he helped her
> through the darkest 
> > period in her life, the aftermath of her husband's
> affair with Monica 
> > Lewinsky.
> >
> > Precocious and confident, 13-year-old Hillary was
> an active member of 
> > her Methodist church in Park Ridge, Ill., when
> Jones arrived in 1961 
> > to lead the youth group. Fresh from the seminary,
> he was anything but 
> > stuffy in his red Chevy Impala convertible. He
> carried the Bible, but 
> > also the collected poems of E. E. Cummings.
> Hillary, politically aware 
> > even then, was a budding Republican who took after
> her staunchly 
> > conservative father. In long discussions at the
> church, Jones 
> > introduced Hillary to the left. The young minister
> was determined to 
> > show his white, privileged parishioners the world
> beyond their 
> > suburban town. He took them to the South Side of
> Chicago to hear 
> > Martin Luther King Jr. speak. Jones introduced
> each of them to the 
> > civil rights leader.
> >
> > But the conversation wasn't all politics. "Hillary
> would come up to 
> > talk to me after I preached and make comments
> about the sermon, how 
> > the hymns, prayers and Biblical passages were
> coordinated with the 
> > message," Jones tells NEWSWEEK. Jones hewed
> closely to the 
> > social-justice tradition of the Methodist Church,
> preaching that 
> > helping those in need was a means of practicing
> their faith. "I think 
> > she responded to my ministry in part for its
> intellectual content," 
> > Jones says. "Her heart responded to the social
> responsibility 
> > aspects."
> >
> > Not everyone appreciated the minister's lessons.
> Within two years, the 
> > conservative members of the congregation asked him
> to leave. Jones 
> > landed at Drew University in Madison, N.J., where
> he spent his career 
> > teaching theology. They were in communication
> while Hillary was in 
> > high school and later at Wellesley. During her
> time as First Lady, he 
> > visited the White House nine times. After Bill
> Clinton admitted his 
> > affair with Lewinsky, Jones gave Hillary a Paul
> Tillich sermon about 
> > grace, and how it comes to you when you feel great
> pain. Jones says he 
> > hoped Hillary would pass the words on to her
> husband. "It was my 
> > secret agenda," he says. Sure enough, five days
> later, Jones received 
> > a thank-you note from the president. Last year he
> saw the Clintons at 
> > their home in Chappaqua, N.Y. The senator had
> called him to invite her 
> > old friend to her mother's birthday party.
> >
> > Though she's been accused of adopting a religious
> patina for political 
> > gain, her relationship with Jones shows that from
> the time she was 
> > young, Hillary was thinking seriously about her
> faith. She clearly 
> > talks more about religion these days, as many
> politicians do—but her 
> > connection to Jones reveals that her Christianity
> has always been at 
> > the center of her identity. "She's not using the
> language of prayer 
> > and God for the first time," says Jones. "While
> there may be a 
> > political dimension, it's authentic."
> >
> > Jones describes Hillary's beliefs as falling, like
> her politics, 
> > somewhere in the middle of the spectrum. Unlike
> the extreme left, she 
> > understands the limitations of human beings, he
> says. And unlike the 
> 
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