[Oe List ...] ? More changes or more of the same?

Sun Jun 24 19:41:55 EDT 2007

Margaret -- sounds like you should be on the writing team!  Some  people like 
you and Marshall do remember all the particulars very well!
Cynthia

In a message dated 6/23/2007 9:35:54 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
aiseayew at netins.net writes:

The new sameness seems to be:  ELIMINATE  IT.  And in my opinion it is with 
extreme prejudice.  Truth,  whatever it may be, is much more often inconvenient 
that even Al Gore might  think.

I am astounded by the web site and the  selectivity of memory it represents.  
I went back to try and find the  reference to JWM and no matter what spelling 
is used, the ERROR seems to have  been eliminated from the website by 
eliminating the reference.  At least  the search system won't bring it up.

I was signed up for the previously scheduled  "Living Legacy" event that was 
to have been at the Aragon Ballroom in  Uptown.  I'm sorry I can't bring 
myself to sign up for this one.  I  can't imagine a history that discusses only our 
international conferences and  ToP programs and eliminates all references to 
ongoing community development  work, the entire community revitalization 
network across the country,  eliminated.  All of our periodical publications, 
eliminated.  All of  our work with the poorest of the poor right here (the 
homeless, the drug  addicted, the immigrants, the refugees, the abused and neglected), 
 eliminated.  All of our work with churches (even as the ICA),  eliminated.  
All of our work with building sustainable urban  environments, eliminated.

We would appear to be an organization very good  at sponsoring international 
conferences.  Whose passion is that going to  arouse?

I seem to remember in some lecture we used to  give, talking about trying to 
patch over the intrusions of reality into our  lives with bandaids.  I find 
myself ashamed of and then sorry for those  who could no longer tolerate the 
continuous intrusion and the uncertainty it  always represents and felt compelled 
to eliminate it.  I find the actions  of colleagues who have related to this 
as just one more intrusion (some  strange attempt to prevent them, stop them, 
deter them  from declaring the word with all they do in their lives)  
courageous.

Personally, I find it offensive and desperately  sad that some few people are 
putting so much effort into denigrating,  denying, prevaricating and even 
eliminating so much of my personal history of  care.  It happens.  I also worked 
as a permeator enough to have  been resigned, reassigned, downsized, 
outsourced, redundanted (I know  it's not a word), merged, bought out, closed down and 
even outwitted in the  workplace.  My engagement with the ICA was never just a 
workplace.   I am ashamed to have to try and explain how what shows up on the 
website seems  to have nothing to do with the stories I tell of what I gave 
my life to for 32  years.  Not to worry, I'll keep telling my stories.  They 
have to do  with faith and persistence and care and are worthy of being told 
because they  inspire.

I have no spell-check, just a passion for the  word.

Margaret

----- Original Message ----- 
From:  _John  Cock_ (mailto:jpc2025 at triad.rr.com)  
To: _'Order Ecumenical Community'_ (mailto:oe at wedgeblade.net)  
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 2:26  PM
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] More changes  at ICA-USA!

Thanks, Judie, Ellen, and Janice. 

Also, in the brief history of ICA, please  exclude "ICA" from pre-1973 
entries. I noticed one in quick  r3ead.

John

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 From: _oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net_ (mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net)   
[mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Norm and Judy  Lindblad
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 1:44 PM
To: Order  Ecumenical Community; Colleague Dialogue
Subject: [Oe List ...]  More changes at ICA-USA!

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

It's great to know you are  logging in to the ICA-USA website...it is 
embarrassing to know we made some  errors.  We are changing those  misspellings ASAP. 
 If you find more in the Living Legacy information,  let us know and we will 
treat you to a glass of cider at the LL Event in  October! 

Under the rubric of confession being good for the  soul,  it was 40 year 
veterans who somehow let this slip, not our new  staff who have been wonderfully 
diligent in putting together an interactive  webpage.  

We ask your forgiveness and hope to see some of you  in October at the 2007 
Living Legacy Event.

Judy Lindblad, Ellen  Howie and Janice Ulangca, the Planning Conveners  Team

Cynthia N.  Vance
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