[Oe List ...] Salmon: On Fasting

[Marge Philbrook]

We'd love to have what you want to share for the archives.  We have a
lot of stuff that we passed out at that time.  Thanks in advance.
Marge

2010/2/4 William Salmon <wsalmon at cox.net>:
> Jim:
>     During our eleven years with the Order I participated in frequent
> fasting. During the time we lived in Vienna and Brussels, I fasted 70 days a
> year. During this time I did a lot of reflective writing, most of it would
> take too much time to recover as it is in daily journals. During each of
> these times I was fasting 30 hours.
>     However, I do have the following in print form that I'll send you if you
> choose:
> 1)    "Mapping The Interior: A testimony to the power of fasting." This is a
> three-page paper I wrote in Aprip of 1986.)
> 2)    CALL TO PRAYER AND FASTING, by the Council of Bishops of the UMC. This
> is a one-page document. An interesting side note is that during the 12-year
> assignment of Bishop Fritz Mutti to the Kansas Area, he insisted that his
> District Superintendents in both conferences fast every Thursday. I believe
> this was a 24-hour fast of breakfast to breakfast.
> 3) "Loving God, Leaving Food: My 40-day fast developed a spiritual hunger."
> This is a one-page article excerpted from Leadership (Fall 1997).
> 4)    "Fasting: relic or relevant?" This is a reprint from the UM "Circuit
> Rider" of January 1986.
>
> What do you think?
> Bill Salmon
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: James Wiegel
> To: Colleague Dialogue ; OE list serve
> Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 8:20 AM
> Subject: [Oe List ...] 2 requests
> 1.  I recall, in the summer program of 1984 -- the big council -- that
> someone handed out a story about the "Plur - E - Forms" -- had some hand
> drawings in it, may have been a cartoon / comic strip one of us created.  I
> have lost all my notes from that gathering.  Anyone remember this, or have a
> copy?
>
> 2.  Is anyone on the list participating in fasting on a regular basis?
> Seems like it was mentioned some time back.  i would be interested in any
> constructs or context.
>
> Gracias,
>
> Jim
>
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> Song
>
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